Back to Basics

Apparently, my goal with this blog was a journey of my writing experience. It evolved quite a bit over the years as I’ve had to change focus on things outside of writing. Looking back l, now I remember all the intricacies of writing and how I wanted to keep a journal of sorts of my work through the story. What was once a simple story of a boy turning into a leader evolved into a world with an intricate history and expanding way beyond the land the story takes place in.

Writing is beautiful because it solidifies moments in time. It’s like taking a picture of your thoughts. Reading my own words of the past is like flipping through an old photo book and seeing baby pictures. With thoughts, these experiences can get even deeper, and on this occasion, my original plan for this blog was revealed. This blog was meant to be a back and forth as I thought about different paths for my story.

The blog has changed as I faced new things. Originally, it was accompanied by my story. I’d blog along with writing a chapter. After some changes in work and situation, the blog became a lifeline for my desire to write, simply containing moments in time of the simplest inspiration. After a time, I was greatly affected by my wife’s situation and too worn down to have a proper outlet. The blog became an outlet for that burden, allowing my mind to open up and express itself again. Most recently, my blog has been filled with a mix of random thoughts, inspiring studies, and poems.

This has been wonderfully powerful in pushing my writing forward. I’ve been able to break through a lot of barriers that slowed my writing down, knowing all I have to do is think it, then write it.  This long journey has come round again, as it will likely do again. I’m back inspired by my old words and stories. I find myself again laying out timeliness and plots. All these thoughts can be overwhelming and easily forgotten, but by tracking these thoughts through blogs, I can better evolve them to their proper end.

I don’t intend this blog to become entirely enveloped in my story. In fact, I still have a well of topics that have yet to be written out. I hope I might move closer to the roots of this blog by drawing it closer to the book I have worked many years on completing. Perhaps the day will come. I can publish my book, and this blog will be a biographical record of what makes writing take so long.