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Sunday Ramblings: Reflections

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I know I'd hoped to write a post a week, and that would have been awesome, if for nothing that I have so many stories to tell. See the thing is, I do. Five years is a long time for 'nothing' to happen. It's a good thing though, that I have not managed to write a post a week. Good, for two reasons. One, it just means that I have been busy. During the time I was writing the last blog, I was insufficiently employed. Yes, I had a couple of jobs, and I was in school, but I still had time to knock out an average of three posts a week. Where I am now, is a much busier time and place. If, five years ago, you had said to me my career would be where it is now, I would have laughed at you. Laughed, mainly because while I had plans for growth, they were more like dreams. Things which seemed unattainable; a child's daydream, more like. And yet here I am, living my best life. Two, I've been doing better. Most of the writing from my past blog was from a place of pain and ...

The Trouble with Sequels...

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I am happy! Let's start from there. My general disposition is happy. I have grown, in more ways than one. I have changed, in more ways than I can list. Is my world still going to shit? In some ways, yes, and yet, in spite of that, I'm happy. I have stories to tell, and even more to keep to myself, but here goes another attempt at this writing thing. I have many issues with sequels, especially those that were not intended when the first chapter closed. Where do we pick up the story from? Do we continue from the end of the last chapter? Do we tell the story from where the characters currently are, and maybe fill gaps as we go along? Do we keep the same characters? Introduce new ones? Do we have flashbacks reflecting on the last chapter? Do we pretend like the last chapter never even happened, and just pen a new, possibly unrelated one? One of the questions I've had to deal with is whether to start a new blog with a totally new identity, and just allow myself a blank sl...