Day: May 24, 2020

We are on day 3 of homegrown comicon and I am watching Robotech (Macross Saga) while I blog. This is a callback to my childhood and the period of development when I first decided to be a writer. Back then I felt a great deal of energy around the idea of writing. I didn’t have as much going on and I was not as run down and beaten up (mentally and physically) as I am these days. Watching the show is an attempted reboot–a chance to remember what it is that fuels me and use that to get this mental engine back in a useful gear.

Back at the Robotech.com site it is clear that the operation is continuing on and growing from its own history. This is exactly what I desire from my own life. I want to go to the next level. I want to shed the shackles of my present thinking and move forward with a singular goal.

I’ve been a jack of all for most of my life, but now I am trying to shift my thinking into combination mode vs. compartmentalization. A shift in thinking and an openness to change is exactly what is needed right now. However, I wish to base that change on history and research and philosophy.

I have been writing for the same role playing game for over twenty years. I enjoy it for the most part. I get a chance to be very creative and do really great things in a world I’ve always thought of as my own. Just recently the line decided to expand into a series of novellas. I was not granted one of the many novellas offered, and for me that was a clear sign. It is time to move on. Perhaps I will do some work in the future, but for now at least I need to be focused on doing different work. I need to not pursue this line, because I am obviously no longer top shelf in the group. In truth, I think I just ran out of things to say or am writing as though a holdover from a past iteration of what the game and the game world meant. Either way, I need to move on. I am moving on.

In my heart gather stories of superheroes, rimspace, old broken worlds, and dystopian images of our old world. I have many ideas that have not received the attention they deserve. It is perhaps time for me to explore the galaxy of my own making–the Talisverse is aching to be born.

So the new plan is to begin writing the stories, lives, and histories of these worlds and from that will spring new opportunities for publication. I still feel like I have stories left to tell and I believe I have not only a right and an opportunity, but I have a ‘calling’ to tell these tales. I’ve neglected my own imaginings for so long that I fear a thick scrape of dust hangs over my mind itself. In time I will break free of that hinderance and achieve the creative level I’ve always aspired to have. Writing in the Talisverse is an important first step. It is the blank canvas.

Some Thoughts:

1. Trumpism offers a great amount of inspiration for this endeavor. I am so curious to understand the mindset there that I feel it will lead to powerful stories. The best stories are often echoes of reality.
2. No interest in non-fiction at this time.