Just Because

Remember me?

It's been a while since I created anything more than updates to My virtual bookshelf and the occasional (not always emailed) blog post. I'm sanguine about this, and I hope you are too (let's be fair, no one ever thought "I need more emails.")

I had a think about this the other day, as the train sped through the Essex countryside, and I came up with this gem of a quote.

Creativity tends to come in waves, and while it's good to make them, it's not always wise to do so in calm seas.

Mixed metaphors are fast becoming my specialty. At least it's not puns.

So, if I'm in calm seas, why am I sending this out to you?

I want to explain myself.

Plans mean nothing, Planning is everything

As we head out of the festive period I've been looking at the blog (or rather, lack of it) and thinking about what I want to do with it in 2025. There's a lot coming up next year, and my writing may well suffer.

BUT - there's also something to be said for writing for the sake of it, of keeping up the practice of input/output, so that when I do get back to the screenplay or something else it isn't such a shock.

My initial plan is to move the bookshelf to the front of the house. If nothing else it stops my having to post twice on one subject whenever I've finished reading something. So my 2025 blog posts and my various thoughts will be driven by my consumption (like a good little capitalist). Each time I finish something, I'll draw out a key theme or key thought and post it up here.

This will achieve two things - personally it will keep the virtual bookshelf going, so I can track what I'm reading and what I'm enjoying. This will include movies, TV shows and books. This has been a really important part of the blog for me, and I've enjoyed looking at things with a more critical lens - hopefully that will be interesting for people as well.

Just Because

I'll not only be sending through books and reading and such. I'll occasionally put a thought here about work, life, or the creative process. I suppose it'll be a bit of a diary for me, as much as anything else. There's a fair bit of ego involved here, I guess, but reflecting on things is always important, and it helps build perspective.

Who knows, I may end up looking back at this very post and reflecting about my life back as I entered my 40th year. I may laugh, and see this all as a mid-life crisis. I may shrug and ignore it because nothing came from it. However, I will hopefully always be a little bit proud that, despite the cost in both time, energy and finances, I carried on with something just because.

Dammit, I've started thinking about my next blog post now.

Isn't it strange that once you sit down to write, you can just... write?

Dammit, I've got an idea for something else now.

Sorry, folks.