Super Secret Cider Squeezy 6000 Cancelled. · 10:26pm Jan 16th, 2016
Well, there we go. I guess this was bound to happen eventually.
I'm not going to be too philosophical about the whole thing. I'm only going to say that I've learned a lot as a writer from when I first started writing it - it was the second or so story that I started - and now I've learned a new lesson entirely: when to stop writing.
It's been over two years since I published the first chapter, even longer since I actually wrote it. I re-wrote a huge chunk of the story before I published that first chapter and I've been slowly adding to it ever since. Only it wasn't fast enough. Now I'm in a position in life where I (thankfully) have a job and all the responsibilities of living alone and I simply don't have the time, will or the ideas to continue the story. Oh sure, I have a vague sense of how it should go and how it would end, but not enough drive to actually put it down. Other things are much more important now.
I guess the first real indicator that I wasn't going to finish this came when I wrote the much-polarizing Cracking the Elements of Harmony. I wrote that whole thing in a couple months, but more importantly, I wrote it whole before I published it. And the energy and motivation I felt writing it were so different to what I feel now when I try to add to Squeezy that there's no comparison. It feels like a burden rather than a chance to create something new. So I have to let it go.
I can't remember when the last time was that I didn't finish what I started, but I know that the effort required to complete the story properly is far beyond what I can now commit to. To the few of you that were keeping up with the story, I'm sorry. I just hope I'll find the time for a new short story or two for 2016.
No worries, man. Do what you have to do.