Closing the Ironwork Gate

It took a lot of soul searching and thinking of what I really wanted out of a blog.  And what I want more than a place to enact a prose version of my adventures in Facebook is a place for my world(s) have presence online.  I want a place where I can post pictures and drawings, character sketches and (if people are nice enough) to receive feedback on what works for them and what doesn’t.

I want a place that doesn’t involve “me” so much as them, even if “they” are an extension of me.

So this page is going to close, at least temporarily, maybe forever.  I will be moving my fiction over to my other WordPress blog: Many Worlds From Many Minds.  I will continue to explore the writing process and how it affects me personally on my Blogspot page.

I do hope you will follow me there and that I can offer you an interesting assortment of diversions when you do.

Creating the Perfect Underachiever

What makes someone an underachiever?

It’s not as simple as throwing a few descriptive terms into the pot and stirring; I know that much. In this recipe everyone has his or her own specialty, a seasoning blend that stands out, marking one as a true “master of the craft”.

Problem is…it gives everyone who tries it indigestion.

This is the first in what may be a series of posts on paths: the ones we choose and the ones we end up on despite all our intentions.  Nothing here is meant as a criticism to those who were involved in deciding my own path and/or helped direct me to where I am now.  If anything, it’s a living testimony that the things that often seem so very terrible when they occur are the exact things we need.