Oh the irony of posting an article on web serials and then me taking mine down. That’s not to say to stop reading them. Please don’t but I just couldn’t take mine anymore.

It’s not that the time constraints were getting to me, not really. It was the work itself. I hated it. Loved the idea, still do but I’ll be damned if I let something that sub par represent my writing. The worst of it? The voice. I addressed this concern earlier here and I was hoping I’d be able to work through it and I sort of lied to myself and rationalized and hoped that I was just being a little over-critical of my work when deep down, I knew it was as bad as I thought it was. When a review confirmed my suspicions, I said screw it, it’s not worth it.

To write in general is certainly worth it but to continually put effort into something I just don’t like purely for the sake of time management is simply a waste of my time, especially when I put my WIP on hold every other week on order to write and edit the next chapter in this series. I want to write something that I know has an inkling of a chance to make it to the end and pretty much everything except that serial has that chance in spades. With my WIP, from the little snippets of descriptions I’ve given and the sample pieces that I’ve had critiqued, it’s generated a bit of a buzz and gotten people interested already. Yay! Granted the stories morphed significantly from those initial writing pieces (which I will post here eventually) but the concept, the idea and where I’m taking it has got people intrigued by it. But most importantly, I’m happy with the story I’m creating and the words that I’m writing even though they’re crap.

Not really crap but yes, crap. It’s a first draft. No one’s eyes will see this version except my own and I’m purposely just pumping the story out in order to just get it out. It’s sub par but that’s what edits are for, as well as rewrites. But the fact is I’m excited about the crap. I’ll probably pee a little with the finished product at this rate.

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