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No use crying over spilt milk
Now that I’m actually feeling like I’m getting my head back on straight once again, I am feeling the old urge to start foisting my poor attempts at literature on the world once again. Yep… I’m planning on setting aside more time each day to write rather than do any of the myriad other things I was doing to avoid life the past year or more.
For a while there, when I was writing, I was attempting to explore a number of different genres, namely (in no particular order of preference): young adult fiction, science fiction/cyberpunk, wyrd and outre semi-fantasy, and trying to create modern folk-tales. I’m intrigued still about the possibilities of all of these genres, but what I think I really want to do before exploring any of the aforementioned genres is to return to my prose roots. Back to the basics…
My main desire for my writing has always been to write in a style that I’ll call a plotless vignette. The plot, however thin, might be there, but the focus is on the Polaroid-moment snapshot of life. I want to paint a picture of a snapshot of life, capturing the subjects of the story in the middle of their day. No meaningful beginning or end to the story — much like life, if you bother to think about it. That’s not to say that the characters won’t have personality or crises, but I like writing where the reader is suddenly injected into a place and a situation and that reader is given an opportunity to take a peek behind the curtain, so to speak.
Ever since I migrated from poetry to prose, this has been my main goal. If some of my readers here have been around long enough, they might recall another incarnation of this blog and a sister blog in which I posted a serialized novel called “Drifter – A Love Story”. If you’d read any of those bits and pieces, you’ll be well aware of my habit of starting chapters rather in the middle of something and ending the chapters without resolution in order to create tension. The idea is similar — only I am not so certain that I want to write a novel at this time. Just get back into writing more regularly would make me happy.
That said…. If you recall, I had tried to start up an online tea/coffee retail outlet last summer and it failed miserably due to a combination of factors, the least of which not being that my partners would rather I did all the work while they received income from my labors…. That aside, I had created a promotional site/informational arm for the store call The Dormouse Confidential (dormouseconfidential.com). In an effort to build rep with search engines, I went ahead and paid for 5 years worth of domain registration with the understanding that search engines rank site higher when the site is registered for a longer period of time. As the commercial endeavor flopped, I maintained ownership of the domain and used it both as a title and a publishing point for my 2008 NaNoWriMo effort. Due to life circumstance, that effort was also a failure… But I still have a part of me that really enjoys the name I created for the site.
I could (and may) give up ownership of Lacuna Moon’s domain, but I am tempted to cling to the site as it was my first foray into assuming responsibility and ownership of my own webspace (with my own dollars). For now, however, I will not migrate once again to another site. Instead, I plan to utilize Dormouse to highlight my writing endeavors with little or no side commentary. Lacuna Moon will then become the arm of my ranting and lunatic raving (as is most appropriate). Posts may be more regular here, but I encourage you to subscribe to the Dormouse feed or visit it now and again, or both. The works will likely be in progress and, as torturous as it may sound, I still think it is important for readers to get a look behind the veil to see the writing process. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks that it’s important, but hey… I can’t help it.
The first five chapters of a very incomplete story for NaNoWriMo are still up at the site. Check them out, give input if you wish. I will be hiding non-writing material as I assume greater control of the site.
Thanks for your readership and good day.