Well let's be honest, I have almost given up on Goodreads and quite frankly, my main reason for keeping it has been for this blog that automatically posts to my Amazon author page. I've largely been using my twitter page (@zenlarsson if you'd like to follow me there). I guess it's time for me to go on a little rant again.

I've gone through a lot over the last seven months and I really have to say that I've been trying to be a happy person but lately, I've been failing. So at the end of June, I went through a rather nasty breakup and that really made me want to stop writing for a while. I was thinking of starting to write again because I have a collection of short stories that I want to and will publish on Amazon. The problem is, I read a few reviews of an old story I wrote. Let me be the first one to say that I know it's not my best work, so you don't need to keep telling me too. I don't want to sound bitter or like I don't want people to be honest, I just think that most people (especially when they're not authors) forget or just don't know how much time, effort and life it takes to create a story from scratch. So when I read reviews where basically the entire review is a list of complaints without even finding one thing that they liked, I get disheartened. People just want more without paying any mind to the effort required to finish. It just makes me sad. Because I also have to say this; yes, I know I'm young and still finding my voice and if you don't like that, then don't read books by young authors.

But I am here to tell all of you that I will persevere and survive because I can. I will keep writing and keep publishing and I hope that the people who enjoy my stories continue to do so because it's the people that care that help me to keep going.

I have my own ambitions and self-set deadlines and I will publish my new short story collection by August 31st.