Monday, July 7, 2014

Congratulations Haitus!

I've been writing the Congratulations from the Sexy Result Future Agency! pieces for a little over five years now, and while few things about the series, from the tone to the quality, have remained consistent, one thing has: a compact has remained in place that, each day, a new piece of writing will appear on this website, that it will use the second person future tense, and that it will be titled beginning with the word "Congratulations."  Five years is a long time, and I've been able to play with the serial format and the constrictions of the form to do some things I couldn't have done any other way.  I've received some very nice comments from some very nice strangers, and some eye-rolls from friends when I'd spend nights in to catch up on writing pieces for the next week.  It's been quiet, lonely work, but I've enjoyed it.

Lately, however, its been taking more and more effort to put out daily content, even when things are slow, even when life is easy.  The effort to keep Congratulations coming has begun to dominate the time I set aside for writing.  I've begun to feel like I'm treading water, or re-treading ground that I've covered in years past.  It's kept me from working on some substantial, less digestible pieces, and it's been feeling less and less like the creative outlet I want to invest myself in.

So I'm announcing that the Sexy Results Future Agency will be going on an indefinite hiatus starting today.  I can't say I'll never want to put out another Congratulations again.  They're fun to write, and I hope they're (at least sometimes) fun to read.  There are Congratulations yet to write, an unlimited number of asinine and profound achievements that warrant celebration or warning or, occasionally, both.

But I'm not going to write them in the immediate future.  The archive will remain here, a testament to the journey that has been Sexy Results.  Super Nerd Sundays will continue to come out every Sunday.  And any news of anything "me" related will get a nod here.  I'm hoping I'll be able to share good news about a number of burgeoning creative projects with you all in the near future and, in a little bit more time, maybe some new Congratulations pieces.

Thanks to everyone who's followed the site, purposefully or accidentally, bots included.

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