Hiya people! I had myself a little bit of a mental breakdown over the past week and went MIA, not, I'm sure, that anyone missed me. I came to one of those crossroads points in my life where I needed to make a critical decision. I'll just let this tentative introduction that I wrote for the book I'm currently working on tell you all about it.
A NEW TAKE ON AN OLD ISSUE
Here's how I will introduce my longer, more involved books from this day forward.
The chapters in my books can be read as standalone short stories or interpreted cohesively as a longer novelette/novella/novel. During the first half of my life, I had a lot of people tell me that my writing would never be good until I was able to make it conform to their ideals. Now that I am in the second half of my life, I refuse to apologize any longer for the way my mind and brain work or to force my writing to conform to rules decreed by others.
A NEW TAKE ON AN OLD ISSUE
Here's how I will introduce my longer, more involved books from this day forward.
The chapters in my books can be read as standalone short stories or interpreted cohesively as a longer novelette/novella/novel. During the first half of my life, I had a lot of people tell me that my writing would never be good until I was able to make it conform to their ideals. Now that I am in the second half of my life, I refuse to apologize any longer for the way my mind and brain work or to force my writing to conform to rules decreed by others.
I have ADD (attention deficit disorder), type 2 bipolar
disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These factors affect the way my
brain processes information and the way I write. While I strive to make my
writing concise in its own way and to continually improve my skills, I will never be able to
write novel-length stories in a cohesive fashion. My mind simply cannot stop
developing subplots.
It came to a point where I realized that I must either stop
sharing my work or start sharing it without apologies for the fact that I
neither think nor write like other people. I have chosen to share my work with
an explanation but no apology.
I write the way I see the Universe as working: in a
sometimes seemingly haphazard and disconnected fashion with an unseen thread
connecting aspects in surprising ways. As the Tenth Doctor once said, “People
assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from
a non-linear, non-subjective point of view, it is more like a big ball of wibbly
wobbly timey wimey...stuff.”
My stories are a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey
stuff, and I will no longer apologize for that. I will simply issue the warning
that you are now entering the Zone Where Normal Things Don't Happen Very Often,
as was once revealed on Johnny Bravo.
If that sort of thing really is your bag, Baby, then
welcome! Leave your expectations at the door, and come join Team Netherworld
for an adventure like no other! You may at times be baffled, but I promise that you will never be bored.
Cie the Ornery Old Lady with a Mind Like a Maze
I would dare you to try and figure me out
But that wouldn't be fair
Because I've never managed to figure myself out!
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I try to get comments published as quickly as possible. I have ADHD and anxiety and sometimes I need to work myself up to be able to respond to comments. I don't always reply to comments on my blog, but I do try to visit as many people as possible when I participate in blog hops. I share your work on the monthly Roost Recommendations posts at ornerybookemporium.blogspot.com so others can discover your work. I do read and appreciate your comments.
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