I’m not entirely clear on whether I can call myself nascent or not. I’ve clearly been doing this for a while with some success. I also still feel like I am crawling back towards that precipice of more. It isn’t binge watching Daredevil that is going to make me better. I feel like I will take that next step primarily as a result of having more experiences and learning to understand human reactions to the world and conditions around them. Writers drink in all of that and spill it back unto the page in prose or poetry, words scratched into paragraphs and sentences shaped into dialogue. For me the pathway has always been fiction, but the blogging is more about the truth and the result of my experiences. I’ve learned that I can do both and enjoy both. I’ve learned that one informs the other, and that often the relationship is bi-directional.
I have learned that blogging provides a sense of freedom. I can speak out and be real about things and often be real with myself without allowing myself (for the most part) to work about fear of persecution or ridicule. That makes the work all the more worthwhile.
I don’t know what is coming next for the blog, but I’m guessing it will be more involved and more worthwhile and, well, just plain more…
Some Thoughts:
- 1807 marked the beginning of the gaslight era. It started in London on Pall Mall street and led to a longstanding genre and romantic period. The facts of gaslight however skew darker than the romanticized perception. Beneath the surface of the gaslight industry was a web of challenged patents, competing entrepreneurs, and murder.