by Tim Suddeth @TimSuddeth
I started a new short story today. Isn’t that great?
Well, actually it isn’t. (Although I’m sure the story will be. Isn’t that the great thing about starting something new?) I’m already suffering from a strong case of paralysis by analysis. That’s when you have so many choices, you don’t know where to start. When your imagination goes into hyper-drive. I need (Notice that word I used there. That is part of the problem, isn’t it?) to work on my blog, finish a short story for a mystery magazine, finish my work-in-progress (which is the third in a series, so I can’t just drop it.), and send out more query letters so I can get notes from such nice people saying, “Your story just doesn’t quite work for me.”
So, of course, my brain goes, “Let’s start a new story.”
