Message in a Bottle | Random thoughts cast into a sea of voices

Time 2020-10-02 22:07:14

Web Name: Message in a Bottle | Random thoughts cast into a sea of voices

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So after almost a decade and a half I have decided to create a new primary site for myself. You can find it here: http://witha2ist.comOh yes, and as if that weren t enough I also have a new book out. It is Of Shards and Shadows, the revised version/ sequel of The Shadow Walker. Yikes, I just realized that it s been almost a year since my last post sorry about that!As you probably know I ve had some issues with my current host, I am currently working on a solution. I m still not sure what form that one s going to take, but I have a number of ideas for things I want to do that I m actually excited about.As for my writing, it s coming along, but life got a little out of hand over the last couple of years, and I m trying to get back on track (okay, so the fact that I decided to tackle a massive project has probably had something to do with my silence).Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I m still around, and here s hoping it won t be another year between updates! As you may have noticed, I just published three books. That s the good news. The bad news is that that means that I m out of works in progress, and back to square one, to that dreadful stage that can probably be described as pre-production . Fair enough, that s part of the game, and I do have an idea stuck between my ears that I m currently trying to develop. The problem is that I usually try to maintain a certain routine when it comes to my writing habits, and at this stage the line between working and wasting my time has an annoying tendency to get more than a little blurry, why? Well, because in order to work out a story I have to give my mind a kind of freedom, but if I give it that freedom it tends to wander. If I try to drag it back to what it should be doing -usually kicking and screaming- it just sits there and sulks. If I allow it to go wandering along it doesn t sulk, but I still don t get much done.So here I am, allowing my mind to go where it pleases and wondering whether I am working or merely wasting my time.NOTE- for the time being relevant posts such as this one are being crossposted from my new blog, but I m not sure how long I m going to keep up that particular practice. Of course, I ll let you know when/if I decide to stop (as you might have noticed, right now things are in a state of flux) Okay, today I uploaded three new books to CreateSpace, they should be available in a few days now on to the next one. I am in the process of making some changes around here, and on of those is that I decided to spin off the tribute to my mom. Seeing how I m not a big fan of broken links, I am not taking down the existent content, but the information can now be found here:https://fridasaal.wordpress.com Hi guys. Okay, so the blog has been languishing for a while, the good news is that I ve been busy writing, and a few new titles should be coming out in the next few weeks. Another thing I ll probably be doing is redesigning the site as a whole. This blog is not going anywhere, and the same goes for the legacy aspects of the site, but for the most part I ll probably be changing the way in which things are organized by moving some things to a different site where I don t have to worry about exceeding GreenGeek s ridiculously limited unlimited service (if you ve been following this site for a while, you are probably aware that that s been an ongoing issue for some time, as I m fed up with the fact that traffic spikes are routinely penalized).For a while there I considered of opening a facebook page. That would have been the logical thing, but I admit that by now my refusal to have a facebook account is pretty much a matter of principle (I don t like the fact that having such an account seems to have become almost a requirement, especially considering their rather cavalier approach to privacy). Anyway, that s where things stand, so watch this space! Okay, so I just finished Michio Kaku s Physics of the Future. At first glance the premise —a book on the future of science that was actually written by a scientist— sounded appealing enough unfortunately I have to admit that I wound up being appalled instead.Oh, I can understand where the man is coming from, but his triumphalist ode to a hypothetical future in which science solves all of humankind s problems, and his depiction of what he honestly seems to believe is an ideal society will probably give me nightmares for months to come. No, for the time being I m not going to write an In defense of post about the whole Rachel Dolezal mess. I don t think I have the facts to do it properly, though it could be an interesting one. Still, I came across an article by Priscilla Frank in the Huffington Post that kind of bothered me. You can find it here, though the gist of it is that Frank accuses Dolezal of both plagiarizing and violating the copyright on a work dating back to the 1840. It s an interesting theory, the problem is that, if the work dates back to 1840, then it is in the public domain, and if it is in the public domain there can be no copyright infringement.Yes, Dolezal has made some questionable claims to say the least, and there are plenty of reasons to criticize her, but this particular article feels  like a cheap shot, and an attempt to kick someone while she is down, and while I am not going to defend Dolezal, I do believe we should try to retain a sense of fairness. Writing a book can feel a lot like putting a puzzle together with the difference that you only have a vague idea as to how the final thing is going to look like (and more often than not it changes in the process). The thing is that you usually have a starting point, otherwise you can t really get started, but once you are done with the edges you have a huge span of emptiness with few clues as to what goes where. As you near the end, on the other hand, there are only a few sections to fill in,  and far fewer pieces to fill them with, the end result: if you ve done it right, you will reach a point where the story will basically lead you towards its natural end. Yesterday was a weird day. Early in the morning I realized that I had basically painted myself into a corner in the story I am currently working on. As you can probably imagine, I was not exactly happy about that, but by the end of the day not only had I figured out how to get myself out of that mess, but I had also managed to work around a number of issues in a way that actually made sense.I love it when things suddenly click into place!

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