User blog comment:Doom Vroom/4 Pastas in 20 Days Challenge/@comment-25148755-20160126221738/@comment-26326346-20160126223455

I've come to feel that some of my best works are the result of contests/being on a strict timeline. Became and The Endeavor are both the works that I am most proud of and they simply would not have happened without those contests to propel me forward and the timeline that I had to follow. On the other hand, I have had it to where I didn't finish a story in time, but I never actually announced I was writing it, so maybe that's why I didn't finish?

The story in question was actually a Jeff the Killer rewrite in which I got bored with and thought might have been too radical a departure for the character. He was going to be a teenager who was bullied for living on a farm and the bullies were going to become triggered when he got one of the girls that they liked to go to prom with him. That would have resulted in them tying him up to a wooden stake (which was used for a scarecrow) on his parent's farm land and acting like they were going to set him on fire in an effort to get him to break up with the girl, only to accidentally do so and have him become badly burned and deformed while destroying a huge portion of his family's crop. I was going to have his whole class shun him which would have caused him to snap.

I've actually gotten to where I'll start some stories and drop them out of boredom and interest of a newer idea. Which is fine, because if I get bored by them then why put it out for people to read? It sort of sucks to swap gears and leave things unfinished though.