I haven't done well with my creative writing this past decade. Since writing Dragon Hunter, most of my creative endeavors have sparked, but failed to catch fire. The only exception has been keeping up with this blog on a daily basis. Two summers ago, I made an attempt to write a play about teachers in a carpool. Last summer it was Vali's Tale. This past winter break it was the sitcom screenplay about the cruise ship. In all cases, I know that I have a good idea, but I allowed myself to stumble for one reason or another.
Perhaps that will be the case for this one as well. I won't know until I truly give it a chance. While I plan on this being a "summer" project, I decided to start now. Too often, I put off things that I know that I should do to fit some arbitrary start date like "the beginning of summer break" or "next month" or "Monday." As a friend recently reminded me, if I plan on making a positive change in my life, I need to start now, not some nebulous time in the future, not tomorrow, not later, but now.
I already like the title for this one: Dark Side Station. Like Vali's Tale, I have created a Google Doc for this story that I have allowed anyone to view if they clink on the link embedded in the title of this post or the title in the previous sentence. I have also put a link on the page with Dark Side Station so that people can still access the story without have to hunt for this post again. I hope that having this as a "live" document will both help give me incentive to write and let people tell me what is working or worth pursuing and what isn't.
On a side note, I have also started to put together documents that hold all of my previous blog posts. I have the links to these listed on the side as "Blog Collections." I find my posts easier to read through on a Google Doc rather than scrolling through the web pages on this blog. As of this posting, I have not brought the 2015 collection up to date, but I hope to both catch up and then keep adding the blogs month by month.
As always, feel free to let me know your thoughts on my writings, hopefully in a manner that encourages me to write more.