Every now and then, I get to stick my head up and realize - it isn't so bad out here, doing what I do, or more accurately, believing I am doing what I said I'd do.
Every now and then that voice that taunts and jeers, that tells me that this won't mean anything or pan out the way I want it to, has to harrumph and look away.
TLDR: in which I do some somewhat philosophical ramblings about writing, because it's late, it's been a tough week, and I just need to get some words out. The power of the stream-of-consciousness essay should not be understated, even if it's completely counter to the premise of an essay.
I've long held that writing is an act of faith, if not the product of it.
(At this point, maybe every blog will have a title referencing some literary work, for funsies)
Hi, everyone! I thought I'd drop by with a quick update as to what I've been working on. Nothing too fancy - I'm not good at making a blog look like that - but I figure this might interest some of you.
Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. It would be more accurate to say that I opted for a partial truth. In the words of Carlos Ruiz Zafon, “Perhaps, as always, a lie was what would most resemble the truth”1—and in this fashion, I did lie.
There are things older than princesses, than castles, than names, and than time. Some of them live in remote corners of the world, shuttered away in an inaccessible crevasse. Some take refuge below the sea, in cities older than minds can comprehend. Some sift among the stars and dance maddeningly against the backdrop of the crawling chaos.
Twilight Sparkle met one such thing in a small cottage outside of Canterlot.
Now, two hundred and seventy-three years after the fact, she vividly recalls how her meeting went with...
The Keeper of the Dead
This is NOT the novel-sized work I spoke of in my last blog. It's closer to a novelette, however, or perhaps just a lengthier short story. And it's one of those things you write because it's been rattling around in your head, and while you're not really sure how it came out, you're just happy to have it finished, and are ready to move on to the next project.
Interesting, can’t wait to read it