Who here knows who first coined the phrase “It is far easier to destroy than to create”?

I will admit to first hearing it from Star Trek’s Mr. Spock. I never knew the origination of the saying and I never cared enough to look it up.

Well, today I have decided to break how that law applies to my writing.

What?

What I mean to say is that over these nine or so months I have been confining myself into refining my previous works instead of creating new stuff. In other words, I have been trying to break down my already written stuff and clean it up. Now I know that I just admitted to breaking it down and putting it back together but it is the very act of doing this break/recombine that is so taxing. I have to put a good deal of my mental focus into editing and right now, the past 2+ months I haven’t been able to do this (thanks to my job).

I didn’t try and participate in NaNoWriMo 2016 knowing my time was already being taxed enough. I have been however fidgeting with an old story idea and have finally started putting some grease on the old mental spork. In other words, I started writing again. This time I’ve been diving into my universe of SplinterStar.com (I’m still not sure I like that name). I’ve been just freehand putting together a story about a space battle in the long distant future and merging it with a family that is somehow responsible for having an effect on that battle in our near future. I’ve already posted a chapter of the near future story thread here in all its ugly glory. The story has been flowing out of me at an incredible pace and I can’t seem to find the time to keep up with my thoughts to type it out.

So… with me…. here and now… it is by far much easier to create (something new) than it is to destroy an older story (and put it back together again).

So while I’m still working on finding a new job, I will postpone (temporarily) any kind of editing and just stick to doing new stuff in a whimsical nature.

Yes I realize how pathetic that sounds 🙁

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I NEED A WRITING BUDDY!

Somebody I can beta read my crap and point out things that suck.