You Can't Make Me

I don't wanna write. I'm avoiding my main story so hard I've just about written another book but in the form of a few short stories so I can't even say I was working on another project.* Well, I am. A couple actually. One called denial, another called avoidance, there's probably a "stupidity" in there.

The manuscript is so close, too. I know what I need to end it and large portions of that are down. However, this is where everything comes together across multiple planets, species and situations, simultaneously and with many cross interactions!

Maybe I'm just chicken? Everytime. I'll get a little further, then slow in the quagmire of backstory. Do I have to reread chapters 7 and 9 to ensure I don't get any of the species particulars wrong? Well, of course! You should probably read it a 2nd time and if you think that helps, why not 4X! Wasn't there a blurb about that species in some other chapter somewhere in the first half of the book? Let's go look! What were we talking about again?

Some may consider the short stories as distractions but there's been good stuff in there. Should I continue and write another book, it's seed may very well come from these short stories as they're better than I've done in the past. That probably means I should rewrite my book since the ending isn't on there yet anyways? I can't figure out why I never seem to get the book finished.

A computer should be set up with no internet access and a single document, the book. You shall be given no options but to write the story for which you will stare into space for hours instead of typing a single, lonely 'the'. That should totally work. Well, a little internet, for updates and to save my book offsite. I lost a book once, 80k words just blinked away. I started using dropbox the next day though it took me years to write again. There's my short stories, safe and protected. I've got one with a magical house with an interesting character set that I think may work really well for young viewers.

What was I doing again?

* Seriously, I'd estimate 30-40k words in short stories to avoid writing a few thousand hard words.