So, it has come to this. “New Management”. Is that the right way to put it? Still me, but a different me than the last time I gave this place a good look and cleaned off the dust.
I wanted a change of scenery to say the least. Not to dismiss the decor that was here before, but it just doesn’t represent what I want as my current direction. It was clean, just a little unhinged. This is more unhinged, and maybe, at times, clean.
My impetus for writing definitely got thrown into an airplane turbine in the past few years. A lot of stuff screaming back into the foreground from parts unknown, all of it carrying its own baggage too. Instead of fighting the current, I let it take me just long enough down stream to climb out. I have reconciled with most of it in some way, the rest is still ongoing and pending payment on final delivery. Shit has happened, but the laundry is in the dryer right now.
Too many goddamn metaphors.
They work great for intentional inclusion, but when your headspace is just like “Hey, improv classes! Awesome!” it can be a bit much.
Anyway.
I’ve been needing a reason to get off my ass and get back into writing. I have a couple irons in the fire in that respect, but my momentum has been failing. Have you looked outside? Hard to do or say anything and pretend it’s not all on fire. Part of why I want to get back to it is for the therapy it does afford me, giving myself the headspace for all the thought experiments and, well, metaphors.
The big reason I’m coming back here is for another excuse to light the fire under my ass on writing. Renewing this site costs money, and if I’m going to bother renewing it yearly, I should be putting it back into use. Things are about as stable as they can be in my personal life, so I should be using what opportunity I have to take back control of some things that I’ve lost a grip on. In time, hopefully, I’ll get back to a better headspace than I was last year, all gloom and doom, but the first step I need to take forward is actually putting pen to paper (as it were) and get my routines back in order.
Okay, the airing of my grievances is done, for now. So, what can I say about NEW CONTENT?! I don’t know. Not really, I do know, but things are a bit in the air. I have more work to do on my existing manuscript, needing to tune it and add to it, and Frankenstein it more and more, figure out what it’s going to be eventually. None of that will be getting posted here for the provenance of my own creative IP. What I will post here will be continuing the dump site of my random creative bits, but also adding the transcription of the tabletop games I’m running. I’m really excited about that, because it gives me a crutch to use until I can get my raw content engine brain going, while also paying homage to all the things I’m a fan of in some way.
So here we are:
Insert Coin
Press Start
Come Play
Aberrant Arcade 