Themes Gleaming Darkly Part 10 (Finale) - The Future
With the release of Futures Gleaming Darkly (and my subsequent release of Vivisection & Other Poems) I have marked a major milestone off of my personal bucket list. Even if none of my books become best sellers, I wrote them and got them out there into the world, and that fills me with a great sense of accomplishment. And by no means am I done.
After releasing Futures Gleaming Darkly, I told my boyfriend that it felt so good to feel like a writer. I wrote constantly from early grade school up through college. After that I had the amazing opportunity to write for Ionic Comics and found so much confidence and love there. When I got my first business card from Annie, the founder, I remember thinking, “This is it. I'm a writer now.”
The last year or so was rough, though. And life slowly leaked that feeling out of me. I was not in the right place emotionally to write. It just kept getting pushed back and back. What little time I had to myself I wanted to spend with people or dissociating into my phone. I felt that I had lost my connection to the words that once flowed out of me.
But I am no longer there. I am once more swathed in words and it feels like home. My future feels bright.
I have not completely settled on what my next project is going to be, but I’ve resolved to break the habit of starting 18 different projects at once and try and see one through to the end. Or at least to a point that I feel I know I do or don’t want to do it.
I am currently toying with the idea of creating a fantasy anthology as a sibling to Futures Gleaming Darkly (I jokingly refer to it as Dragons Gleaming Darkly). Magic and fantasy have always been fascinating to me and I enjoy the many different styles and flavors it comes in. My previous adventures into fantasy writing have not been very fruitful, as I find I get too caught up in trying to explain everything all at once. I believe it would be a worthwhile challenge to write fantasy short fiction.
Although this is the last part of Themes Gleaming Darkly, it is not the end of the blog! I plan on writing about the poetry collection and compiling my thoughts on the fantasy anthology if that's where the words take me.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. If your futures must be dark, may they gleam.
After releasing Futures Gleaming Darkly, I told my boyfriend that it felt so good to feel like a writer. I wrote constantly from early grade school up through college. After that I had the amazing opportunity to write for Ionic Comics and found so much confidence and love there. When I got my first business card from Annie, the founder, I remember thinking, “This is it. I'm a writer now.”
The last year or so was rough, though. And life slowly leaked that feeling out of me. I was not in the right place emotionally to write. It just kept getting pushed back and back. What little time I had to myself I wanted to spend with people or dissociating into my phone. I felt that I had lost my connection to the words that once flowed out of me.
But I am no longer there. I am once more swathed in words and it feels like home. My future feels bright.
I have not completely settled on what my next project is going to be, but I’ve resolved to break the habit of starting 18 different projects at once and try and see one through to the end. Or at least to a point that I feel I know I do or don’t want to do it.
I am currently toying with the idea of creating a fantasy anthology as a sibling to Futures Gleaming Darkly (I jokingly refer to it as Dragons Gleaming Darkly). Magic and fantasy have always been fascinating to me and I enjoy the many different styles and flavors it comes in. My previous adventures into fantasy writing have not been very fruitful, as I find I get too caught up in trying to explain everything all at once. I believe it would be a worthwhile challenge to write fantasy short fiction.
Although this is the last part of Themes Gleaming Darkly, it is not the end of the blog! I plan on writing about the poetry collection and compiling my thoughts on the fantasy anthology if that's where the words take me.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. If your futures must be dark, may they gleam.
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