Happy Holidays, Dear Reader!
In my last, quite rambling, post detailing my romance with the words of George R.R. Martin mixed with background notes of confusion of perspectives of my story, and topped off with a dash of inspiration of some friends during the holiday season, I was headed in a direction of telling the tale of my enlightenment. I wanted to sing the praises of a, newly realized, love of writing that was magically bestowed upon me by the randomness of the universe itself. I yearned to express to you the magical moments of my life, over the past six months, that have led me to my current personal perspective of reality and the subsequent shifts of my story as a direct result of my new viewpoints. I wanted to convey the pain of my struggle to continue with a story that, while I was still in love with the characters and needed to know their tales, had hit a wall constructed, mostly, of stumbling blocks laid by my own choice of perspective. I needed to tell you the tale of how a holiday encounter with friends convinced to come back to my blog and use it to exercise my brain. My last post was to continue into this post so that I could let you know all of the backstory of how my hiatus from writing had led me to change my direction, and use this blog as an exercise to help carry me to my goal of getting a book published. But, as often happens in life, the clear path I had mapped out ended up getting changed, once again.
As I wrote out my last post, I had an epiphany. Actually, I had several epiphanies. I suddenly realized the point of view that I needed for my opus. I also realized that the simple exercise of writing that last post had led to the previous realization. Taking those things into consideration I decided that my attempt to focus on writing "the book" (capitalization omitted on purpose, as the projects current status does not warrant the use of capital letters) while merely using this blog to serve as a timeline of the construction of "the book", was no longer possible or realistic. This blog is a pull up bar for my brain. It is a tool, to be used accordingly, that can help me achieve my ultimate goal of a published tome.
So, Dear Reader (note that you DO warrant capitalization when being addressed), I am welcoming you to my new mental experiment. You will have front row seats, and back stage passes, to the development, the success, or the failure of my creative process.
This journey is about to get strange. I am going to use this blog as the tool to sharpen my skills. I will be posting a variety of exercises, rants, opinions, short stories, or scenes that will all help to hone my craft. While I had intended to continue the story of my friends and the holiday meeting that inspired me, that direction has now changed. I am going to jump into this experiment 'feet first' and offer you my Holiday Wishes.
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