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half-decade
It is with some sadness that I have to announce that as of Thursday, September 22nd, the autumal equinox and the five-year anniversary of its first installment, my serialized fiction project Imaginary Year will go on a hiatus which will (most likely) be permanent.
I've enjoyed having Imaginary Year as a project, but I've grown increasingly interested in writing other things, and attempting to write two pieces of short fiction a week, hopefully pieces which are of decent quality, doesn't leave much time for writing anything else. I've written basically the equivalent of a novel a year for the past five years: it seems like now might be a good time to take a breather. I don't know, yet, whether I'll spend my time writing something new, or whether I'll spend it revising Imaginary Year and sending it out for publication, but it'll be nice to be able to think about my next move without a deadline for new material always just four days away.
I don't want to say that I won't return to these characters at some future point—I've worked so much with them that it's hard for me to imagine trying to make sense of the world without making use of them as my front-line tools for interpretation. But if I do return to them it probably won't be in short format pieces like those that make up Imaginary Year—there's only so much they can do in the constrained space of a couple of pages. It'd be nice to have a little more room to let them breathe.
That said, over the last year I've tried to get each character to a point where you can more or less feel like their story has “concluded,” at least inasmuch as the events in people's lives ever conclude. They don't, which is why I wrote this story this way. I hope you've enjoyed it.
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But I've never really been in this for the money. It's been great having you guys as readers: I certainly would have given up on this project years ago if it hadn't been for the thoughtful and kind responses I've gotten from people who were enjoying it. That's really all I have to say. Thanks so much,
Jeremy Labels: personal, writing |
Sunday, September 11, 2005
1:05 PM
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