Funny how things work out and how complicated they can become. I put together a little teaser essay to try my hand at fiction, and kapow! people don’t want to be left hanging. Well as Sean Dare points out in his writing is hard post, you can get into trouble real quick if you haven’t planned it out. I simply sat there in the car on the way back from Michigan and started thinking about what kind of story and what kind of tone and feel I would want to read and I started writing that. And it turned out ok and it got people to want to know more about Terna and his world. Well, to continue past there, we have to address some issues and some logistics… (more…)
I’m really wondering what to do. I have had some interesting responses to my essay entry. I’m kind of torn, since I’m not really a fiction writer. At least I don’t consider myself one. Yet I had fun with my short essay assignment. I again put the blame on Sean Dare. But now, I’m trying to figure out how and where to go with my story. It unfolds in my mind, but I also want to follow some sort of storytelling rules. I don’t know any. Other than don’t mess up. Which has been a crippling motto of mine. It has been an issue for me that causes paralysis on all sorts of planes. I often don’t do things or launch out because I might fail and for some reason, I’ve determined that failure is not an option. dumb I know. Well, not dumb if you still try and try til you succeed. But dumb if you don’t do anything because you might fail. (more…)
It seems that in today’s culture of abundance, the one thing that we fall short of is time. We can apply ourselves to all sorts of tasks and interests and jobs. I’m 36 now, actually 36 1/2. I have not made a mark on the world amidst all my strivings, strivings for various seemingly important things. We, the collective culture “we”, are so busy with this and that, distractions, interests, paths, ladders, hobbies, extra curricular events, jobs, second jobs, parenting, spousing, eating, watching, that we really don’t get all that deep in any one thing. We are generally spread thin, running from here to there. Time is not spent in gaining full knowledge of anything or mastering a craft. Rather, our time is often spent learning enough to get by, grabbing a snippet here, learning a tidbit there, putting it together into something that really has no depth or meaning, especially in light of eternity. (more…)