A Hundred Journeys

Every time I start a new story, I usually know where it's going to go. What I never know is how long it will take to get there. These destinations always lie in waiting as I take detour after detour getting there. All too often, I get lost along the way and end up not knowing where to go. Of the hundred paths I could take, I choose the worst ones. The tangents that I could on always spring new ideas with their own paths and destinations.

Twenty-Five stories I have. Of them, a handful are complete. The others span across thousands and thousands of words, and I know there is still so much to do. Sometimes, I feel like taking the cheap way out and making a big blog post with all the endings of my incomplete works. I wish to just lay out the twists and surprises for you all to see, just so you can know that I had a great idea in mind. Also, if for some reason I were to disappear, someone could finish my journey for me if they knew the destination.

I hate getting people hooked on my writing only to make them have to wait as I putter to the important parts. Always with those promising starts, just to drag my feet for ten chapters until something interesting happens. Writing has always been easy for me, but when I have to force it, I lose my will to write entirely. I know that I need a break from this, but time waits for no one, and if I stop, there will no point in returning.

If I can finish just one story, it may ease my mind enough to finish the rest. I can't look at the pile, I just need to start with one small task. I get overwhelmed far too easy, and I do it to myself. So, instead of saying I'm going to do something, I'm just going to go do it. I'll be saving my 100th blog post for something truly worth saying, until then, expect the only thing from me on your feed to be chapter updates.

Comments

[Full-time_Introvert]

Well just take your time and write at your own pace. Even if people complain for you to go faster you shouldn't. People don't realize that when they want a story out asap and they bug the author they just make the story worse . Sometimes we just have to wait patiently and give our full support. Annnd i'm rambling... Well i hope you understand what i'm trying to say. You have my full support!

[Tom From Myspace]

You're not alone there, my friend. Even if all of the stories I have will end in roughly the same way unless I decide I like Shamalamadingdong style twists, I still have no clue how long I'm going to make them.