An Update

Hello readers.

I wanted to give an update on how things are at the moment, since I felt that those who’ve been following me deserve to have some idea of whether or not they should still be following this page, especially since I pumped out content quite a bit in short bursts for a while here.

The truth of the matter is that a lot of the stories that I posted on this Substack were many works that I had been working on in college, some as early as Freshman year, that I had continued to touch up for a long time, with the most recent versions having appeared in this Substack. The oldest ones are actually the ones that first popped up on this Substack, which are about four years old from their very first draft.

Many of the earlier entries are very much the same. However, this all changed when “She Who Laughs” came out, which is currently the longest prose work I’ve done. That was created only a few weeks before it was posted to my Substack. And then the works of “She Came From The Woods” and “123 Recipe Street” came out days onto the Substack from their first drafts. The biggest culprit of this change was Independence Day, which, admittedly, was a first draft that was posted the day of.

There are many factors as to why more haven’t been coming out. And the first biggest reason is that I felt my works were becoming less and less refined over time. With earlier stories that I’ve been sitting on for years, I felt incredibly confident about those stories, and there isn’t much I would change about them. But as I was making content that was less and less old for this Substack, I was starting to feel more unsure of what I was outputting. This didn’t feel as bad as “She Who Laughs,” as I found that to be the most fun one to work on among all the others, but the newest ones on this Substack I have been less proud of, in all honesty. Most of these came out on a whim of an idea I had, and in the case of Independence Day, it came out during a time when I felt like I needed to rush to make more content. This is the first time I have had any kind of following for my work, so I felt desperate at the time and didn’t want to let anyone down and make them feel like they were wasting any time following me.

The second biggest factor was reality. I just graduated college this year off of a Creative Writing and Film degree and I felt incredibly pressured around the time of the release of “She Came From The Woods” to start getting things more together, so to speak. For context, my biggest dream has always been to become a screenwriter focused on horror and horror-adjacent projects. It’s the life I’ve wanted for myself for a long time now. But on top of that, I’ve had to juggle now having a job to support me and my family on top of both a Substack and scripts I wanted to work on to try to realize that dream I’ve had for a long time. One of them needed to take a backseat, and I ultimately chose this one.

I do want to answer the question though: when will there be more content on this Substack?

And my answer to that is: yes, but not expectedly.

My schedule has always been sporadic here and I don’t know if I can promise that will change. But I can at least say for a fact that I am not going to abandon this Substack. I feel blessed to have people that like what I write here. It makes me feel that what I’ve wanted to do my whole life hasn’t been for nothing, so because of that, I can’t stop thanking you for any amount of support you have given me, even if it’s just a simple follow.

This was really difficult for me to write, but not in the way that you might think. I always wanted to keep the act up that I’ve been doing for a while now of these mystery figures behind this page that write odd or creepy stories. I really wanted to keep that act up all the way through, but that’s not what I did here. And the reason is because I felt it was better for me to be honest with my audience rather than speak in cryptics that might feel fake or forced. I respect my audience too much to pull something like that.

To conclude everything, I want to make it clear that there will be more content here. I’m hoping to write something for Halloween coming up here soon, so I can at least make that a guarantee, but other than that, nothing is set in stone for me right now. But I wanted to write this because I felt like you all deserve to know what’s happened to this Substack.

Take care and have a blessed day,

- Bite-Sized Horror.