Hey y’all
Typed with a Midwest accent
I haven’t dropped off the planet, just gathering my thoughts.
Lots of projects under consideration.
The biggest hurdle at this point is deciding how to do a site layout that reflects my vision. I’ve always been a visual person, one who sees things then works to recreate what I see in my mind’s eye.
So readers can immerse themselves in that vision.
Vision as Part of the Process.
When writing, my visual process makes it so I not only see characters, colors, settings in equisite detail, I can smell the smells.
Whether they come from shampoo a character uses, a by-product of what is going on in the scene – i.e., the aftermath of a battle – or from memory – i.e., a hospital or elementary school.
When I set fingers to keyboard I literally have images of characters, settings, smells in mind. It’s why I so easily identify with my characters.
Which helps when writing from their point of view.
I see them with crystal clarity.
As if they were standing in front of or beside me.
Speaking of Crystal Visions, the song of the same name – by The Big Pink – is pretty sweet.
On the Red Riding Hood Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
I imagine other novelists have this ability.
As would song writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, and a myriad of other artists, including actors who create their character as they see – and feel – in body and soul.
What makes this phase of my career challenging is that despite the tremendous improvements in tools and layout options available through WordPress, I’m concerned about making the layout overly busy.
I want to represent multiple projects in one place without making it cluttered.
As with many disciplines (i.e. writing software code**), there are numerous ways to accomplish what I want and plenty of tools for doing so, but it’s wanting to match what I envision with what is displayed that has me taking time.
Considerations
Some projects will remain under wraps.
I’ll be revealing them in the near future.
Some are topics I never walked away from.
They’re integrated into who I am, woven into my life in a way that means to abandon them is akin to pulling a thread and watching everything unravel til nothing’s left but a spaghetti mess.
That doesn’t mean I was obligated to share.
In spite of a passion for making the world a better place.
Going back to the way things were would only land me in the place that drove me to step away to being with.
The way I’d been doing things resulted in serious damage – to me.
It was as if – metaphorically – I suddenly found myself in a ballroom so crowded I couldn’t hear myself think.
Let alone breathe.
As I go forward with these projects I’m taking my strengths and vulnerabilities into consideration.
As I honor my passion for making the world a better place.
Among the myriad of topics attached to various projects are EMF Sensitivity and life through a Living the Psi Life lens.
Stay tuned.
** A big part of why I refused to do coding on-the-fly as part of my technical consulting is the simple fact I would be setting the sales rep up for failure. I’d either be trying to deal with a predecessor’s code or writing in a way that meant whoever came after me needed to understand where I was coming from – at that moment – in order to support the customer.
Never mind that whatever I did wouldn’t be supported if the customer ever called the help desk.
Ah, but that is a story for another day.
Elizabeth Maxim 