We're Live
I've always enjoyed writing. However I'm convinced that most of what I write under my other hat remains forever largely unread; it's a truly niche field. And while sometimes I have been quite proud of what I've written there, that satisfaction rings hollow simply because so few people ever see it. Journaling aside, what is the point in writing if not to converse to others?
I lamented this for a long time, particularly as I have recognized this wonderful moment of human history we currently share. When I grew up in the eighties, I distinctly remember news from around the world taking weeks to arrive. Is it not simply marvelous that today, for the first time in human history, we can publish something at essentially no cost to be immediately viewed by almost anyone the world over? How ironic then that what I write for that profession would reach so few.
And then, in the Spring of 2020, the world shut down. Too many of us lost too many we loved, taken before their times. We each found ourselves immediately isolated from friends, from family, and from worldwide communities we had come to take for granted. Whatever that Spring meant to each of us, it was clear we were in a time of consequence. Our generations will forever remember 2020 and I'm certain the children who experienced it will tell of it to their own grandchildren. I can only hope those tales seem nothing but foreign to those of whom these days are told. When that time comes, I dearly hope they find this story of our forced isolation impossible to imagine.
In that spring, at that moment of peak isolation, I decided I wanted to reach out, to communicate, and to create something. I enjoy writing and I'm not the poorest storyteller. What an escape it would be to write of an imaginative world, to build something entirely new and enjoyably distracting. What if this was something others might enjoy as well? What if, in this moment of isolation, I was able to engage with many more?
And so somewhere around June of 2020 I began with an idea. More about this story can be found elsewhere on this site, but the origin and effort came thus. Life careens past us too quickly, and while the days may seem long, the years only forever shorten.
As I near completion of the first book, Lost and Bound, I but only hope it begins a time of renewed bonds, warmer discourse, and wider friendships. Thank you for reading.
January 25, 2022 Update: Lost and Bound has been published and is available here:
Lost and Bound
Lost and Bound is available on Amazon in paperback and ebook formats.