After much deliberation, I’ve decided to take a break from my serialized short story. I felt that the main character was becoming too much like myself and ultimately I just didn’t feel like writing about myself in a fictional setting. But as I wrote in my entry yesterday, I could still be doing more creative writing on a day-to-day basis, and although I have decided to put my serialized short story on hold, I’m still going to be writing a story.

Right now I’m working on the details for a mystery/thriller story but I won’t be sharing it for a while. Writing requires a lot of editing and while I did enjoy putting bits of my serialized short story out every week, I didn’t feel like I was giving myself enough time to go back and edit before publishing. It’s difficult to know if something is going to make sense in a story when it’s just beginning, but at least I know I have the urge to write and am able to commit time to it!

Sometimes I take on a little more than I can handle and then get overwhelmed with to-do lists, but I’m confident that I’ll be okay. For now, this new story will be like a little baby of mine until I can shape it and polish it off enough so that I’m not embarrassed when others read it. It’ll be interesting devoting a little time each day to writing this story and hopefully I don’t get too bogged down by other commitments. I think taking the pressure of posting something each week off of my shoulders is a good step towards getting myself to really want to write this story, rather than feeling like I have to write something or that I’ve got to keep the story going until it’s finished.

Anyway, I just wanted to give a little update and explain why there won’t be any more serialized short stories in the near future, but I also wanted to say that I do hope to post some of this new story at some point.