Possible Cancellation · 4:45am Feb 24th, 2018
I see little to no point in continuing My Brother's Keeper, and I don't think it's because it's not doing well.
I just don't like it.
You see, I've recently reread it, and it's alright. It had a different vibe to it that I kinda got into since it was a break from the norm, a step out of my comfort zone in a way via adding in previously psychotic beings into a world that was supposed to be rainbows and sunshine. I do believe that by warping the source material too hard, I fucked myself over and killed a good idea before I could make it bear fruit. I'm putting My Brother's Keeper on hiatus until I finish A Thief's Tale at the very least, and I'm hoping that the new idea I had for a story named "Quoth the Wendigo" turns out better than MBK. It's been more fun to write than even Chapter Fifty-Eight of A Thief's Tale.
Which brings me to some news. The final Chapter of A Thief's Tale could be wrapped up in five thousand or so more words, but I wanted it to be a 100k epic that you guys have to break down and come back to over the course of a day or three, if anything then because go out with a bang, but I'm stuck around 30k and the Writer's Block is brutal. Max is where he's supposed to be. He has what he's supposed have. The ending I've dreamed of for months is ready to be written, but I keep putting it off because I still hold out hope that I'll find one more gargantuan task that I can wrest 20k+ words from to at least make it to the halfway point, but the last three times I got more than a few thousand words into it, my flow died for days and I spent a lot of time sleeping because it just makes me sad to think that I'm putting my baby to rest. I know I can release more chapters when it's done, and I know that it's not a hard-finish on that world, but you just read what happened to My Brother's Keeper. It was supposed to be a sequel with Capital G's and Minor G's crossing over, but Quoth The Wendigo is already looking like it's closer to being in my lane.
ShonDamn is it hard to work with characters you know, but don't identify with. With Max, it was just so easy to walk into his head and booger-flick the shit that was out of character for him as far as what I wanted to change in him and what I wanted to maintain, but I've noticed that Jameson Underwood, the main protagonist, is a bit inconsistent. I tried to mix the fellow he's mostly based off of with more of myself because I thought that some of my difficulties in writing for Max stemmed from not knowing him like I know myself, but you know fuckin' what? I write better for a guy who's my polar opposite in more ways than you can count that it's not even mildly amusing. I don't get it.
Anyway, I think the break is somewhere between the heart and the mind. Whereas A Thief's Tale was and still is my child, My Brother's Keeper is like... I dunno, the ginger kid down the street who comes and eats all the ripe peaches from my apple tree. ATT came from the heart and MBK is what comes out of my mind when I try to go out of my depth. Maybe I need practice, or maybe I need to grab a script for Giggud, but either way, it's been a bit of a year for new stories already. I'm counting MBK as a 2018 entry, and that means that we've got four pices of shit that get smeared on your device in just the right way for it to be fragrant and enjoyable. I think. Twilight's New Job was probably the best creation, tbh.
I need to get this shit over with.
TL;DR: My Brother's Keeper= Definite Hiatus, possible Cancellation.
TL;DR;Pt2: A Thief's Tale= Stalled progress
TL;DR;Pt3: Quoth The Wendigo= New project that I like the feeling of.
I like the little "too long; didn't read" at the end but, reading the entire passage was quite the pleasure Mr."shit that gets smeared on your device in just the right way for it to be fragrant and enjoyable".
Though I will say, it is nice to have such a big progress report.
As long as you enjoyed reading it, my new pfp having friend. Shit's mad dope.
I'd say that it's nice to have progress to report, but the progress report is literally a report due to the lack thereof.