Star Wars Films Will Keep Getting Axed, Here's Why

  I haven’t done one of these “think pieces” in awhile, so I’m gonna start with a list:

Star Wars movies either canceled or in limbo:

Obi-Wan Kenobi (reworked as a show)

Boba Fett (reworked as a show)

Rian Johnson Trilogy

Benioff & Weiss Trilogy

Knights of the Old Republic

Kevin Feige Movie

Rogue Squadron

A Droid Story

Lando

Taika Waititi Movie

Damon Lindelof Movie

That’s fifteen movies. Quite a bit, eh? So now the question becomes: Why does this keep happening, and will it ever get better?

I can already answer the second part of the question: No.

But to understand why, we need to dissect the first part of the question…

Back in 1972, George Lucas began working on what would eventually become Star Wars. The movie came out in 1977. That means he had five entire years to work on the movie soup-to-nuts, without having to worry about fan expectations because, surprise, there were no fans yet…

Thankfully, the film received immediate universal praise. The following film, The Empire Strikes Back, was met with some initial criticism, but people quickly came around to it. Since then, each installment has been divisive, at best. Things became even more complex in 2012, when Disney acquired the property. Now, the franchise had to try to please both fans AND shareholders alike. Spoiler alert: both camps want as much content as possible, even if they don’t admit it…

To make matters worse, Disney launched its own streaming service in 2019, just as the mainline Skywalker Saga was coming to end. Similarly to Marvel, Star Wars now had to define a new, post-saga course for its movies, while also justifying the existence of multiple shows a year, all while still having to appeal to both fans and shareholders alike…

Therefore, as one would expect, Lucasfilm is under pressure to keep announcing content on a regular basis. Some of you reading this may go “they should at least write an outline before announcing something.” While I’m not on the inside, I can all but guarantee that every new movie they announce has at least an outline before they announce it. That said, a good outline doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good script, let alone a good movie. Speaking as a writer myself, I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve written an outline, thinking I have a hit on my hands, only to then start expanding said outline into an actual manuscript and realizing what I had was actually shit. In fact, it just happened to me again today…

So now you may be thinking “okay, well then they should write at least one full script draft before they announce something.” I think it’s pretty safe to say that, if it weren’t for having to keep the shareholders happy, that’s exactly what they would do. In fact, they even tried that a few times, but the problem is that scripts take quite a bit of time to write, and when it comes to Star Wars, it’s hard to keep things a secret, especially from scoop-hungry journalists. Keep in mind that the Kevin Feige movie was never officially announced by Disney or Lucasfilm themselves. They were secretly working on the script, and then someone on the inside talked to a journalist, and the rest is history. Same thing happened to the Damon Lindelof film.

This is all to say that, a lot of times, a project is either forced into announcement prematurely by the major studio (Disney, in this case), or its existence is leaked to the press while it’s still in the scripting phase. This even happens to small, non-IP projects that never get finished, let alone something like Star Wars…

Even Marvel’s beloved Infinity Saga hit some bumps in the road along the way (some entries were better than others, plus, remember when Inhumans was supposed to be a movie?). And while the Multiverse Saga continues to chug along, its reception seems to keep declining with each and every new release, and their plans are slowly becoming more “wobbly” now too (remember when Armor Wars was supposed to be a show? Is Kang still gonna be the new final boss?). I’ve also said this before, but even the Infinity Saga itself didn’t become “solidified” until the first Avengers film in 2012 (they didn’t know they were gonna pursue the Thanos story until then, hence why the cartoony-looking gauntlet full of stones in the first Thor film had to be retconned as a decoy).

Besides, do you think the people running Star Wars want to keep putting out multiple mediocre movies every year, like Marvel does right now? Especially when Star Wars seems to receive ten times as much scrutiny? As a matter of fact, no other franchise outside of Marvel has managed to pull off the assembly-line model that they themselves pioneered, and can barely still do themselves. I can’t even count on two hands how many abandoned film slates DC has had in the last decade, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole James Gunn thing doesn’t work out now either…

With that all being said, I think it’s time for all of us to accept that the Infinity Saga was a fluke, and that a pre-determined, decade-long film slate like that is never gonna happen ever again. When it comes to any franchise, movies are gonna keep getting announced because shareholders (as well as fans, to a lesser extent) want to keep knowing what’s going on. Some of those plans will happen, some of them won’t. It is what it is. In fact, we now live in a world where an entire movie can be filmed and yet still be canceled (RIP Batgirl). My best advice would be to just not take any of this stuff too seriously until you see a trailer for it…

I’d like to also remind everyone that good art usually takes time. It took Tolkien seventeen years to finally publish all three volumes of The Lord of the Rings, after all. I also think that the days of something getting announced and then being released just a few years later are over. Like I said at the start of this post, Lucas took five whole years to make the original film. Similarly, he announced The Phantom Menace in 1993, and the movie itself only came out six entire years later. On another similar note, the original Spider-Man movie was in development hell for like ten years and went through a few different directors (even James Cameron was supposed to do it, at one point). Terminator 2 and Aliens both took seven years to make (both by Cameron too, funny enough). Pixar sequels take a while too. The list goes on…

People these days expect a slate announcement for everything when, not that long ago, there were no slate announcements for franchises cause franchises as we know them now didn’t even exist yet. For a long time, there was no internet/ social media to even use for such announcements. Everything just got reported through trade magazines like Variety and whatnot. Also, up until 2008, superhero movies did not connect together to form cinematic universes, and other series like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, etc. were nowhere near ready to think about spin-offs and whatnot. Furthermore, Marvel head Kevin Feige even said recently that, going forward, Marvel itself “will operate more like a normal development studio, so don’t expect every project that gets reported on to actually get made” (I’m paraphrasing there). Even he’s getting tired of these big slate announcements, cause they’re starting to backfire on him (remember when the Blade reboot movie was announced in 2019?).

I say all this because I’ve noticed movie nerds getting more and more anxious about this stuff. A few months ago, it was announced that the sequel to The Batman would only be released in late 2026 (four and a half years after the first one), and a bunch of people online threw a temper tantrum over it (EDIT: Delayed to 2028 now, which is more warranted of criticism). Unfortunately, it seems that Marvel (and major studio culture in general) has conditioned everyone into thinking that we always need content within a few years from announcement. We need to get out of that mindset, I think…

If it’s any consolation, I’m sure all the in-limbo Star Wars projects listed at the top here will eventually get made. Some might mutate into shows (like Kenobi and Fett did). Some might change directors still. Some might only get released like ten or so years after they were originally announced. This was the world before Marvel, and it’s the world again now…

Peace!

UPDATE: I’m not saying that all future Marvel films will suck, nor am I saying that Star Wars shouldn’t start doing multiple movies a year like Marvel does. I’m not in a position to say what any of these brands should or shouldn’t do. Maybe all Marvel movies from here on out will be great. Maybe Star Wars will start doing multiple films a year and be able to do it just as well as Marvel does. Both of those cases would be nice, actually…

Is Pop Culture Beyond Saving?

  There was a time, around the early 2010’s or so, when it seemed like all of us media dorks agreed on pretty much everything…

In general: We all loved the original trilogy and hated the prequel trilogy and were excited for the sequel trilogy. We all hated the Andrew Garfield movies and wanted Spider-Man to feel like a genuine kid. We all hated Zack Snyder and wanted DC to feel “lighthearted” like Marvel. We all loved the MCU. Perhaps most controversially to say; a lot of us were getting tired of the typical white guy hero and wanted some more diversity…

Now everything is fucked. Literally all the examples I typed above don’t even apply anymore, and that’s just the big stuff. You also have smaller examples like how, just few a years ago, everyone seemed to worship filmmakers like Favreau & Filoni, Benioff & Weiss, Taika Waititi, etc. Now, though? Not so much…

All of this has left two questions lingering in my mind:

1.What the fuck happened?

2.Can we ever get back to a point where we all agree on everything again?

The answer to that second question is no, but to understand why, we need to dissect the first question, uhh, first…

To put it simply; fans turning on their favorite franchises and/or creators can all be tied back to one root cause… They all overstay their welcome, but they also can’t stop, because money is money.

That’s literally it. Nothing more, nothing less. With enough time, a “counter culture” develops for any piece of media. Similarly, with enough time, a creator fumbles. The only exceptions are the people who take their time with everything, like JRR Tolkien and Cormac McCarthy. That said, not everyone can afford to be like Tolkien and McCarthy (both of whom had side jobs at universities, anyways). For most popular creators, creating is their business, and they have to keep going. Sometimes that means doubling down on familiar characters, worlds, etc., even long after those stories may have reached their natural conclusions…

As both a writer on the side and a geek, all of this has put me in a difficult position. For a long time, I based my whole identity around these fandoms. This was fine back in the early-to-mid 2010’s, cause my own opinions matched up with the general consensus in those days, but that’s no longer the case. On a similar note, as a writer, I’m starting to get closer and closer to potentially crafting sequels to my own work, which sorta goes against my point earlier about a lot of these things “overstaying their welcome.”

So, in both of these cases, what’s the solution? For being a fan of things, it’s easy; just look for other things to be a fan of. I myself am slowly moving away from stuff like Star Wars and superheroes, and instead shifting my focus towards other things like Cameron’s Avatar, Dune, etc. I suppose another route would be to try to keep finding more and more people to talk about the same things with, but I feel like even that would have a limit (despite how big these fandoms are, and how interconnected the world is now).

        For where to go as a writer, the answer is a little more complicated. I want to make sequels to my own stuff, but when will I know it’s the right time to stop? While typing this very post, I think I’ve reached an epiphany: All stories can have two endings; the happily ever after ending, and the real life ending…

Perhaps no story better exemplifies this than the 1967 film The Graduate (which itself is based on a book from 1963). In the very last shot of the movie, we see Dustin Hoffman and his girlfriend escape from her shit family on the back of a bus. Both of them are smiling. The movie could’ve just ended here… But it doesn’t. A few more seconds go by, and suddenly, their smiles morph into frowns. We can tell they’re both thinking “Crap, now what?” Sure, they’re free of Mrs. Robinson, but now they’re broke, with nowhere to go… In literally less than a minute, without any dialogue, the story goes from a happily ever after ending, to a real life ending…

Stories can either end on a high, or they can end in a way that reminds us how conflicts/resolutions are destined to repeat in cycles forever. Toy Story 3 is happily ever after. Toy Story 4 is real life. Return of the Jedi is happily ever after. The sequel trilogy is real life… That doesn’t mean stuff like Toy Story 4 and the sequel trilogy are entirely bad, mind you. They just are what they are…

This is all to say that, once you’ve done both your happily ever after ending and your real life ending, you should probably stop, unless you feel you have a really good reason not to, like if your series operates more as an anthology. But that would likely involve having a protagonist who’s really more just there to “observe” a story and interact with the real protagonist of each installment (which is how mysteries tend to work). I thought I was that kinda writer, but now I’m not so sure. I think I prefer seeing viewpoint characters go through changes…

Anyways, if you’re a movie geek or a storyteller (or both, like me), hopefully all this dribble drabble here gave you at least something to chew on…

Peace!

UPDATE 1: Something I forgot to mention earlier is that the whole “passing of the torch” thing doesn’t really work as well as it should, bar a few exceptions (Frodo Baggins, Miles Morales, etc.). Spin-offs are also generally not a good idea (again, bar a few exceptions like Solo). I think it may be best to just stick with one main protagonist throughout a series. Either that or maybe stop after a generation (25 years at most) of telling a certain story.

UPDATE 2: Another epiphany I just had is that people in pop culture fandoms tend to want to discuss negativity more than positivity because, when we feel negative about something, we want think about how it could’ve been better. Conversely, when something is “good enough,” we don’t care as much. But the longer you keep something around, the more you have to justify it’s existence, which hurts its chances of continuing to be “good enough.”

Three Things I Learned From Self-Publishing On Amazon

  So as I’ve mentioned on here before, at the beginning of this year, I finally got around to releasing my debut story collection Little Life Lessons: Fifty-Five Super Short Stories on Amazon. Needless to say, I learned quite a bit through this experience, so I thought it’d be cool to do a quick little post detailing the top three things that I felt were the biggest “lessons learned” here, so to speak. So without further ado, let’s just dive right in:

1. Do Your Research! As Much Research As Possible!!

Shortly after I self-published the book, a friend of mine read it and had some constructive criticism for one of the story entries in particular, “Lost Causes.” Without giving away the ending, the story tells the tale of a teenage boy who wants to become a carpenter, but is pressured towards a more “respectable” direction in life by his strict, elitist father. Furthermore, he’s struggling in school, particularly in math class. My friend pointed out to two things in particular: Carpentry is actually considered to be a respected field of work amongst most people, and strong math skills are usually required to be successful in carpentry.

So basically, I jumped to conclusions here with this story, instead of doing more research like I should have. That being said, I suppose the reader could just assume that the father in story ignorantly considered carpentry to be a waste of time, and that he just simply wanted his son to go to university for something more “book-focused” and less “hands on.” I suppose the reader could also assume that the protagonist lost his motivation to improve in math once his father took the option of carpentry away from him. Nevertheless, I should’ve still done more research on this subject in particular, before finalizing the story. When you’re self-publishing, and not working with an editor of any kind, it’s up to you as the author to fact-check all of these things, and that’s something I’ll definitely make sure to do for my future stories going forward.

2. Format! Format! Format!

No disrespect to Amazon, as I’m thankful to them for even giving me a platform for my books in the first place, but their uploading process sure is tricky! Apparently it used to be worse, so kudos to them for improving it since, but it can definitely still be smoother than it currently is. Every time I tried uploading the document for my book, the previewer would show it all messed up, even when I made sure it was reading the page size correctly and whatnot. Whether I uploaded it as a word doc or a PDF, it would look wrong in the previewer every single time. This would happen over and over for both the paperback upload as well as the Kindle upload. I even had to download an app to help with setting up the Kindle version, and as soon as I downloaded that app, it vanished from my computer (and yes, I made sure to download the right version for my OS). 

Finally, my stupid ass realized (thanks to a point made by my mother, admittedly) that I needed to add page breaks in order to fix the error. Thankfully, this worked. However, as I was converting the stories over to a new document, one entry at a time, and adding page breaks, the format got messed up somehow and I lost all the italics. The reason this is an issue is because, in my old document, I used italics to distinguish characters’ internal monologues from the prose narration. At this point, I was so anxious to just get the book out there after so many failed attempts, that it was only after I had uploaded and published it that I realized I had made this error. Sure, I could go back and fix it now, but by this point a bunch of friends and family members had already ordered their copies, and I didn’t want to make things more confusing for myself and others than they already were. Besides, from what most friends have said, it was still easy for them to tell apart the internal monologues from the narration, even without the italics. Nonetheless, I should’ve still double-checked all of my formatting one last time, which is something I definitely will do now from now on (along with adding page breaks from the very get-go, of course!).

3. Adult Content = No Advertisements

So after I finally got the upload process right, Amazon presented a series of questions I needed to answer before allowing me to hit the “Publish” button. One of these questions was whether or not my book contained any adult content in it. I wasn’t really sure how to answer this at first, because the book itself is a collection of many different short stories that are all pretty different from one another. That being said, as I thought about it more, I recalled that some of the stories, mainly towards the end, were pretty dark and “mature.” One of them was about a sex slave escaping from traffickers, one of them was about someone who was being held hostage in a dungeon… You get the idea. So I decided to answer “Yes” for the “Any adult content here?” question.

…And then, after the book was published, I tried to set up some ads for it on Amazon, only to then find out that any books that were marked as “mature” weren’t allowed to be advertised on the main website, and that once a book was published, it was too late to go back and change that. If I wanted to fix it, I would have had to re-publish the book, and again, I didn’t want to make things more confusing for myself than they already were. A warning on this during the initial publishing process would’ve been nice. To be fair to Amazon, though, maybe there was actually a warning there, and I just missed it. In any case, I’m not really doing any of this stuff for money or attention, so I’m not too bothered by it. 

That being said, I noticed that once my book started to fall further and further down the Bestseller charts, it became more and more difficult to search for it through Amazon’s search engine. Their algorithm is clearly configured in a certain way so that, the higher a book is on the charts, the easier it is to find when typing it in the search bar. The only way to make my book show up near the top of a search now is to type out it’s full name, subtitle and all. And again, I have no problem with this. I just figured it’d be worth mentioning here in case anyone reading this is planning to self-publish something on Amazon for the first time in the hopes of actually making some money.

So there you have it! Those are my biggest lessons learned from publishing on Amazon for the first time. If you’re an aspiring writer like me, hopefully some of this has been useful for you!

Peace!

2025 UPDATE: Also remember to double-check the book dimensions. I messed that up twice in a row. Furthermore, be sure to include synopses in your books themselves, and list your other works (especially for books that are part of a series). In hindsight, these are all things I wish I would’ve done, back when I was publishing frequently on Amazon.

How My Short Story Collection Came To Be

  So I was originally going to tie this blog post into the release of my debut book, titled Little Life Lessons: Fifty-Five Super Short Stories. However, due to technical difficulties, the book still isn’t out yet. That being said, I didn’t want to sit on this post any longer, so I’m putting it out there now. Once the book finally is out, I’ll come back to this post and edit it so that it includes a link to the actual book itself.

        Update: Here it is!

So with that now out of the way…

I thought I’d make a blog post to explain what exactly this book is, and how it came to be! As the title indicates, it’s a collection of “fifty-five super short stories,” but when I say short, I mean really short! Have you ever heard of flash fiction? Stories that are only a thousand words or less? That’s what all of these story entries are. Why write a book consisting entirely of stories that are that small? Well, to understand that, we’d have to backtrack to the beginning of my “journey” as a writer…

So it was a few years ago, right as I finished college, when I decided that I wanted to take creative writing seriously. Initially, my goal was to write a film script in the realm of sci-fi, fantasy, etc. Something along the lines of the kind of films and books I grew up with. I knew I didn’t want to direct because I had heard horror stories of all the moving parts that sort of job entails. I figured if I could write a strong enough script with a low-budget “feel” and get it onto what they call “the spec market” (a place where independent scripts could potentially be sold to studios), then I could probably get somewhere with it… Needless to say, it didn’t take long before those delusions started to fade. Soon enough, I realized that even if I were to complete a script (and a good script, at that!) the chances of it ever getting sold were slim-to-none, and the chances of it actually getting made after being sold were even slimmer! Furthermore, even if it did ever get made, by some miracle, the film producers probably would’ve made tons of changes that I likely wouldn’t have agreed with, and there would’ve been nothing I could’ve ever done about it (once you sell your script, it’s not yours anymore).

Funny enough, these days, I don’t really take my art that personally anymore. But back then, I still did, and I quickly realized that I wanted to have full control of whatever it was that I was creating. So what did I do? To put it simply; I woke up one day and said “Screw it! I’m gonna write a book instead!” As a starting point, I took my script idea, which I already had an outline for, and started “transposing” that over to novel format. Rest assured, this phase didn’t last long either. I soon realized that different storytelling mediums required different forms of pacing. In other words; what works for a movie doesn’t necessarily work for a novel, and vice versa. I started making changes to my outline, which helped a little, but ultimately, I still struggled to get beyond the fourth or fifth chapter before feeling the need to scrap everything and start again, over and over…

It was at this point when I realized that I needed to take a break from writing altogether, and focus on some actual reading, for a change! I bought a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy books, things that seemed similar in one way or another to what I myself wanted to write. And it was here when I started to realize something… I don’t really like full-length novels as much as I once thought. It was also around this point when a writing peer of mine who had several more years of experience under his belt provided some profound advice; “Don’t start with a full book. Start by reading and writing short stories instead. Then you’ll see what to do.”

I didn’t believe him at first, but then I went to go pick up a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories and started working my way through those, and pretty much instantly, I realized he was right! Suddenly, I started to see storytelling from an entirely new angle, one which excited me far more than the long-form narrative format. And so, I took the ever-evolving outline for my story idea, trimmed out a ton of fat from it, and wrote it out as a short story that was about ten thousand words long (so a novelette, if you wanna get specific). I sent this to a friend who was kind enough to take the time to read it, and his feedback was that it felt like “a shortened epic.” Hearing this made me feel that maybe I had made it too short, so I wrote another draft that was double the length (so a novella this time). The same friend read this revision, and called it a “vast improvement,”which left me feeling elated, of course, but deep down, I knew something was still “off” with the story…

It was at this point when I started to truly learn and understand the concepts of theme and tone. You can’t just throw whatever you want into a story. Everything needs to “fit together” somehow. Once I was finally able to grasp that concept, I took another look at my novella draft and realized that I had basically taken multiple story ideas and squished them all together, without even realizing it! And so, logically, I started to break all those ideas apart again, isolating each of them into their own stories, and making sure to maintain consistent theme and tone in each of them as much as possible. From here, even more new story ideas started to prop up. At this point, I was still sticking to the realm of “genre fiction” (sci-fi, fantasy, etc.). As I continued to write different drafts of different stories and share them with friends, I kept receiving the same feedback from multiple people; “This doesn’t feel like a proper short story. It feels like it wants to be a full book.”

I was still missing something! I just didn’t know what, exactly. Then one day, somewhat out of nowhere, one of these friends I had been getting feedback from proposed an interesting idea; “Have you ever heard of micro-fiction? You may wanna look into that. I think it could help you a lot.” I knew that by micro-fiction he really meant flash fiction, which I had heard of already, but hadn’t explored much of yet. I decided to take his advice and shift my focus towards reading more flash. Around this time, another writing mentor of mine mentioned how he often practiced his craft by writing a form of flash called drabbles (stories that are exactly one hundred words). I began to take an interest to these types of stories as well, and found myself beginning to move away from the “genre” stuff and focusing more on story ideas that were set in “the real world,” if you catch my drift.

From here; I entered my “idea explosion” phase. Now that I was no longer limiting myself to “genre stuff,” I was coming up with new story ideas left and right, almost every single day! I made giant lists of working titles on my phone. I also used an excel document for this purpose at one point, but it was too difficult to maintain, so I quickly abandoned that approach. As you would probably expect, I soon found myself overwhelmed by all my different ideas; “Where do I even start now?!” Furthermore, I couldn’t make up my mind about how I wanted to actually release any of this stuff! “Do I submit these stories to a bunch of different magazines? Do I put them all up for free on a blog? Do I group them together as collections, and put those out on Amazon?”

In the end, I went with the last of those options. The idea of grouping everything together into collection books gave the stories a sense of “tangibility,” which boosted my motivation, and I specifically chose Amazon as my outlet because I knew that people would be able to order physical paperback versions of my books, and the thought of actually being able to hold my own work in my hands like that enticed me even further. But despite all of that, the same question still remained; “Where do I even start?!” After some more thought, I ended up grouping the stories based on “genre,” which meant one group for sci-fi stories, one for fantasy stories, one for apocalyptic stories, one for “real life” stories, and lastly, one for period pieces. I decided that these would become my “books,” so to speak. 

I then decided that the “real life” stories would be the first that I would tackle… The only problem was that I had sixty-three different story ideas for that group listed out. All intended to be flash fiction, of course. But still, it was a lot! Nevertheless, over the course of about a year or so, I worked through them all, and believe it or not, it was fun! Writing all those stories never once felt like a chore. As a matter of fact, I would even say that the act of writing them all was “therapeutic,” in a way. Throughout my year of this frequent writing, I essentially “tricked” myself into thinking that it was all just a hobby, and that I wasn’t writing anything for a book of any kind. I think this helped to alleviate a lot of the pressure, and therefore kept me motivated to keep working…

Once the stories were all actually done, I knew right away that the next step would be to figure out how to organize them. Make no mistake; this part was not fun! For months, I tried all different kinds of combinations, each of which gave me a raging headache. Eventually, I hit a point where I decided to list all sixty-three stories on a word doc on my computer. Next to each title, I listed a few “key factors” pertaining to the story, such as whether it was in first-person or third, whether or not the story was a drabble and/or double-drabble, and most importantly, what type of story it was. It was through this exercise that I realized that the vast majority of these stories could be distinguished by one of five different “types”; Family Stories, Youth Stories, Office Stories, Aspiration Stories, and lastly, Tragedy Stories.

Finally, I was starting to get some sense of “structure” for my work! It was also at this point when I made the choice to narrow the number of stories down to fifty-five (eleven per section). This allowed me to eliminate some of the stories that I felt were a little weak and/or redundant. I ended up eliminating more than expected, however, so I took the opportunity to write some new story entries at the last minute that I felt fit better with the new structure, as well as helped to “fill in some gaps,” so to speak.

But I still wasn’t done there! From that point onward, I was revising different stories all over the entire book up until the very last possible moment. This entailed changing certain stories to make sure they all stood out from one another, yet still “fit together” appropriately, among other things. Sometimes stories would move to different places in their respective sections, or be swapped out for one of the rejects, or something new. I even changed the cover art at the very last minute! It’s true what they say; revision is where the art really happens!

And so, eventually, I got to a point where I was finally ready to call the book “good enough.” Is it perfect? No, of course not! Could I have worked on it even more? Yes, of course! But sometimes, you have to just say “screw it” and be done with it. Move on to something new, which is exactly what I’m doing now! I still intend to finish and release all of my other short story collections (in some shape or form), as well as continue to study and write poetry (something I started to do only just very recently). Rest assured, I still plan to continue with this blog as well.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my writing journey here, and hopefully, some of my experiences and findings may help you on your own path as well…

Peace!

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