/lit/ - Literature

>let my writing muscle atrophy for 3 months
>shit sucks
Most importantly, I feel like I'm telling too large a story for the medium. IT opens like this, but the meat of the story is this character being lead through the gutter of the world by this virgil stand in (in this draft a wholly unformed and mostly silent observer, so a failure), so how can I spend 1000 words here?
I'm not too worried about the messy writing, it'll come out in the wash of a few drafts, but I find the structure of the short story weirdly entrapping. Like, my mind has ideas 1k words at a time and in a short story that results in 5 pieces running into each other eh.
Thamk u for read my diary.