While I had the time to write at work yesterday, I just couldn’t seem to find the right mind set.

So I went home and did an old exercise of rereading past stories. And I hated them. The descriptions sucked, the dialogue: all forced, and the char–

That was when I shut it all down and terraformed Mars.

See kids, when you hate your writing, when stuff you normally love just sucks, don’t fix it. Don’t try to write through it. Let it go. You aren’t a bad writer all of a sudden. You just don’t have the creative drive at the moment.

I will try again today. Maybe I’ve pushed through it. I also am starting to itch thinking about Matty and Mina. There might be another story there. And I’ll take it. I love the idea of the releasing “The Lost Stories” from Pittsburgh as a collection. I have a few others I could add, but I’d need at least two more 10k or better. I have no deadline for this project or publication, it’s more a whim. But I’m itching to get back to the Steel City and if it means I don’t hate my work and get actual words on paper, I’ll take it.