I haven't actually written much for awhile, and i've never actually used this blog to write anything other than stories...I use it as a gallery or a storeroom, but what use is that?
I should just write to whoever may be reading this.
first of all...I love to read. I love stores, how each one is so different, so unique.
I love stories in any form... books mostly, but also good movies or TV shows. I love visual art as well--really, art of any sort.
I have read every Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a lot of pastiches--that's what they call it--Sherlockians and Holmesians are very...like that. They'll write monographs on some trifling part of the canon they are interested and make it fascinating, and argue about all the stories, and everything is very old and serious and at the same time lighthearted and fun.
I also like Star Trek: The Original Series, and i've read--and written--a bit about that too, though i've written only for myself in a journal. Somehow, it is easier for me than the Holmes stories...maybe because I can never get the voices right.
Because the Holmes stories are so...formidable. every time I read them they are still as good as I remembered them...better, since after awhile I tend to forget.
Star Trek is easier, because anything you write is going to be totally different anyway.
I have also watched some old episodes of Dr. Who.
They are sometimes unbearably boring, and sometimes so great that it is like reading a novel by someone who writes as if everything flows along... with a strange sense of rightness. Those are the "perfect" books--the ones I remember forever as brilliant, transcendent.
I also like to run. I don't especially like sports (they bore me, watching or doing them) but I love to run--it feels like i'm flying when I run.
Someday I want to fly. Maybe in a glider plane or something, maybe on a zipline, but the one thing i've always wished to do is to fly. When I run or ride my bike I feel different that I ever feel anywhere else. Not happy, but better...completely at peace.
