Medium Bang

Hello World.

That's the sentence I started with when I got into computers. That was 20 years ago. I successfully finished my IT education and a career from software design to webdesign to teaching and consulting. But my muses won't leave me shackled to a life of creative self exile. For the last 3 years I have been plagued by these imaginative sirens to create. Not a website or piece of software as I am trained to do. Not even any kind of physical invention, house or object.

No.

They want me to tell a story and create the world around it. For over 1001 days already they have been setting my emotions and thoughts aflame with images and tales that have to be told. I need to get it out.

So way back in Ireland, where I was living with my lovely wife and newborn son I found myself re-examining my life and deciding: I need to tell this story. I roughly knew where it would take place, who would star and what would happen. And so I started plotting.

My own life took me away from the Emerald Isle, but not from the fantastical inspiration that possesses so many writers there. The Muses followed me across the ocean to far away Sri Lanka, where new doors awaited, both physical (former Ceylon is a treasure in antique and deeply mysterious doors), but story-wise as I fleshed out a world larger than Middle-Earth, populated by characters from all genres and a story line involving the very fate of the world. Then further East to Thailand, where I am now, with my 4 year old son and lovely hardworking wife while I am without work, so I can sink even deeper into my feverish dream of a young boy and girl and a mystery connecting all stories of mankind together...

Stop!

This blog is not about to release any secrets carefully protected, yet bragged about to friends and family in the meantime, of the magical realms and exciting events about to be unleashed on the publishing world (did I mention the bragging?).

No this blog is about commitment. Any first time writer worth his or her salt knows that getting to sit behind the computer (or square-headed girlfriend as I used to call it in my bachelor days) and start typing is the hardest thing to do of the whole writing process. Sure we all have the next great story to tell, and publishing with or without agent is something we have no control over anyway, so why worry? No it's the actual routine of sitting and typing. No reservations, no self editing, no interruptions.

But I get ahead of myself. This blog IS about:
* Thoughts. What goes on in a new writer's head as (s)he is trying to make sense of what, how and when to write while maintaining some semblance of a normal life.
* Commitment. I will blog every day (thank you 'Julie & Julia' for the idea that great things can happen - IF you just do it!)
* Emotions. When the above two goals come crashing down out of my lofty aspirations to drive me into the swamp of depression, despair and angst.

So, this is it. Not a Big Bang by any means. Not re-inventing the wheel. Nope. Just a Medium Bang. One long in the making, but now without intention or momentum to bring to a halt. My book series WILL be done. Or my Muses might just kill me.