Author's Notes
Dec 22, 11:47 AM
Is it possible to tell a story in perfect consecutive order the first time around?
Perhaps, but it'll likely lack depth and substance details of real life. Surface-skimming can place the markers, but it is sculpting and continual re-formation that gets the details right, vibrant, and definite.
After all, it is experience that gives life depth: specifically, memorable experiences. Relaying memory as vividly as possible gives it color. The raw emotion conveyed candidly gives the written words substance.
And so the point of this article is that it's neither possible nor necessary to "continue" in consecutive order here. The subsequent articles on this website will be posted without that novel or plot-driven "need" to recount consecutively. For whatever reason my brain has decided to retain certain things about the long and winding road my life has taken (and will still yet take), I know not.
Additionally, the Internet has truly changed the write => edit => publish sequence. As of about, a month ago, I now have 30 whole years of memory to work with.
For over a decade now, I've been somewhat of a Drill Sargent regarding the strict separation-controls on my writing. The numerous "partial blogs" posted to various sites all over the Internet, originally rationalized as "best to keep these separate, for now," have evolved. Once I realized that those Google spiders already seem to have indexed some of my "secret" writer pseudonyms and musings into oblivion. . .erm, protein. Search engine protein. . . I decided to take another approach: emphastic.com.
People sometimes get the wrong idea. In today's data-driven society, those protein-fed search indexes can contain far too many things a writer wishes they didn't contain. Yet. . . I must continue to write. Because something within me needs to explain. And in order to explain properly to this theoretical "audience", I sometimes need to write things such that the reader will know precisely what I've been through.
I do not make excuses. No blame here: separating those personal from private matters was one of my foremost cautions, as I grew up in the analog age. As the analog age transitioned into digital, my curiosities grew, too.
But we'll talk more about that next time.
/** hacking into high school, literally **/
Perhaps, but it'll likely lack depth and substance details of real life. Surface-skimming can place the markers, but it is sculpting and continual re-formation that gets the details right, vibrant, and definite.
After all, it is experience that gives life depth: specifically, memorable experiences. Relaying memory as vividly as possible gives it color. The raw emotion conveyed candidly gives the written words substance.
And so the point of this article is that it's neither possible nor necessary to "continue" in consecutive order here. The subsequent articles on this website will be posted without that novel or plot-driven "need" to recount consecutively. For whatever reason my brain has decided to retain certain things about the long and winding road my life has taken (and will still yet take), I know not.
Additionally, the Internet has truly changed the write => edit => publish sequence. As of about, a month ago, I now have 30 whole years of memory to work with.
For over a decade now, I've been somewhat of a Drill Sargent regarding the strict separation-controls on my writing. The numerous "partial blogs" posted to various sites all over the Internet, originally rationalized as "best to keep these separate, for now," have evolved. Once I realized that those Google spiders already seem to have indexed some of my "secret" writer pseudonyms and musings into oblivion. . .erm, protein. Search engine protein. . . I decided to take another approach: emphastic.com.
People sometimes get the wrong idea. In today's data-driven society, those protein-fed search indexes can contain far too many things a writer wishes they didn't contain. Yet. . . I must continue to write. Because something within me needs to explain. And in order to explain properly to this theoretical "audience", I sometimes need to write things such that the reader will know precisely what I've been through.
I do not make excuses. No blame here: separating those personal from private matters was one of my foremost cautions, as I grew up in the analog age. As the analog age transitioned into digital, my curiosities grew, too.
But we'll talk more about that next time.
/** hacking into high school, literally **/
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