Late nights and bad decisions

I know nobody's going to read this post anyway, since I don't comment much, and I've posted one (crap) story on this site. But here goes anyway.

Since I joined this community, I've felt inspired to change many things in my life, even if I haven't made a lot of progress towards the goals I've at least set for myself. But this community also made me realize that it is possible, with enough effort, to create something meaningful. Back in school (which, for me, is over 10 years ago) I used to write fiction a lot. Heck, I used to read fiction a lot too. But I stopped after college; in fact, the stories I've read on this site are the first since I got my degree.

Long story short, you guys are great, and you made me want to do something as well. I've had several ideas I wanted to pursue for long-term projects, but I've not yet found the time (or the correct emotional place) to create them. With this week's Writers Training Grounds on EqD, I thought I'd be able to get something completed in time. But I rushed it, I forced it, and I created a monstrosity. In the span of a mere 4000 words I've got a:

Mythology story
Slice of Life story
Sad (back)story
Action/adventure story
And..
back to a Mythology story.

So yeah. I got a little carried away with themes and didn't just let it grow naturally. It's overwritten (way, way overwritten) and underbaked. It should have just been a nice little slice-of-life story, detailing the actual events the story purports to describe, with maybe a bit of mythos to back it up, but instead it skips around, giving tons of backstory without providing any real narrative. Then when we reach the actual narrative, I had to go and make a massive conflict that again was unnecessary.

Beginner's mistakes, I know. It's also what you get when you call something "done" at 3:30 AM. I'm either going to rewrite it, removing the actiony-stuff in the third act and taming the "time" conflict (after all, in my haste to publish, I never even detailed *why* they had to hurry. FAIL.) or just pull it down. Just haven't decided which.

Disappointing, but that's how it turns out. I'll try again soon.

If you did like it, I appreciate your support. We are, after all, our own worst critics, I suppose.

Thanks for listening. Its been a long week, and I needed to vent.