Great to hear you’ve got a sequel in the offing.
An update, sir, on the matter of scarcity. Separate post as I didn’t want to hijack Olivia’s thread.
Since I bought ‘Total Passion’ I’ve had it sitting on my Kindle, but I’ve solidly been reading novels for two or three years (outside tax & the usual online econ articles, et al) as it seems to help with my own creative writing. Loved reading Olivia’s primer, however, so will stick to dead-tree novels during the day and will finally get to Total Passion at nights until I finish it [Kindle’s great for bed time reading]. Outside of that, as I said in Olivia’s Amazon review, I’ve taken a dismal view of stopping this civilisation’s current iteration toward the new collectivist Gulags, there’s too many dunderheads and thus no fix, so have been working on going bush (literally in the Marlborough Sounds), and just doing my own obsessive thing, but there was a joie de vivre from refreshing the ideals, so I must start reading more widely again.
Meaning that other than the mindless and frustrating Twitter – I can’t leave the damned thing alone, although am working on it - I’ve been scarce online for quite a bit; even stopped my own blog because I’d said all I needed to, was repeating myself, and worse, I wasn’t enjoying it anymore because it wasn’t getting me to where I want to be, which was writing (for whatever reason the act that gives me meaning and gets me out of bed) – and if I don’t steadily begin working toward that now, I’ll end up a frustrated miserable bastard like Neil. Currently it’s the big push on my novel. It’s been through many crises of confidence – huge crises of confidence - finished once, put down until I realised why I hated it, and now being completely re-written. [You get two cameos].
What a strange entry this is. My final blog post last year – Life Behind the IRon Drape - which ended up the summary of what individualism means to me, explains what I’m up to better. I’ve pretty well got myself semi-retired (working six months this year probably, like to get that lower) so from this point I can do the projects I want if I’m careful with the pennies we’ve managed to squirrel away. Which is another way of saying I’ve been scarce because of crawling out of the dead skin and time served in a career I shouldn’t have done, up into the light to live the dream. I’m 50, so reckon I got another 50 years to get it right (assuming all the wine I drink is more preservative than destructive. Anything that good can’t be bad.)
And have always been around these parts; just submerged. Direct people to my Gareth Morgan called Mrs H a wanker piece on here whenever I tangle with him on Twitter.
Oh. Lost a quarter of my body weight over last two years: no government intervention or tax was necessary, I just wanted to (and I never reduced the wine consumption, nor stopped eating great food. Because life without either would be pointless.) Have tried to update my pic in here by twenty something years - don't know if it's stuck.
Ba da boom. That’s it I think. Will put up my thoughts on Total Passion when finished - ain't promising a time frame - but otherwise will see ya next year 