The Chaff

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Pardon Our Dust

Well, we’re back up after a long hiatus. The database crashed unrecoverably, and the blogging software we were using was being difficult. And of course, all of this happens right as I get into “crunch time” at work, and we all get sick, and…

Anyway, you probably don’t care about all that.

We’ve switched back to WordPress, designed a new look, and added some new stuff. I’m still rebuilding all the links and sidebars, but you’ll notice the “fiction” link up there. That’s the result of an epiphany.

I finally realized that the main cause of my writer’s block has been trying to force stories into particular formats or “sellable” lengths. I don’t write short stories or novellas or novels: I write serials. My stories are most often episodes of ongoing characters or worlds that aren’t complete enough to sell as a story but not “big” enouh to expand into a novel. Sometimes, an episode comes out in prose; other times it comes out in storyboards or verse. I spend a great deal of my time trying to force a story into something it doesn’t want to be.

It’s crazymaking.

So I’m not going to do it anymore. I’m going to start posting the “orphan” fiction here instead of tearing my hair out trying to make it fit some market. There are a couple of pieces up as tests; more will be coming.

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