Ok, first things first.. on my “to do” list for the year, and as promised.. linkages!
http://www.wix.com/lauryscarbro/abyssofthevioletflame
http://www.wix.com/lauryscarbro/redpillsandrabbitholes
Everything’s set up, just a matter of adding more content and keeping things somewhat relevant. Thank god for randomness otherwise I’d be screwed on the whole concept of relevancy. In other news, short stories are going to be considerably random for awhile, once I get those started, which I’m planning to work on later today. I located a site that gives writing prompts, and if that doesn’t work to get the creative writing juices flowing, I’m honestly not sure what would. I had one awhile back (and when I say awhile, it was welllllll before we got our house, so actually several years), in which I was given the suggestion based on something that sounded like something from Stargate. The bit that I had written, which is long gone, was one of my favorite things I’ve written, it was freeform, everything just flowed. That’s where the trouble comes in, it was a derivative fan-based work, created off something that had been created by someone else. An entire world, galaxies even, with races of people and languages that exist and some that don’t. And I find myself wondering if that’s where I balk at the idea of pushing forward with writing. What is there to be afraid of? Nothing. George Lucas did it. Hundreds if not thousands of other writers..novelists and screenplay writers alike, have created new worlds and new languages. And people really love an immersive world that they can lose themselves in, if even just for an hour a day. That’s the whole draw of the Star Wars universe.. Star Trek.. Harry Potter.. Lord of the Rings.. Hell even World of Warcraft. So thats the direction I’m taking. If I’m going to write something, I’m going to go all out, create every aspect of it, rather than be limited to the confines of knowledge, research and the universe as we know it to be now. This should be interesting.
And now for the bragging moment.. I’ve often worried that my parenting abilities are not exactly conventional.. where some parents will be strict, I’m rather lenient, and vice versa. I’m not exactly the most consistent except when it comes to the basics.. lying, stealing, etc. The typical “thou shalt not”s I was raised on. That’s not to say the theory is working, Dale and Bradley are constantly taking things that belong to the rest of us.. lying (even though they have never, not ONCE, lied and gotten away with it because I can always tell when I’m being lied to) etc etc. But this week I was surprised on more than one occasion by my oldest, Brandon. Not only is this child not afraid to state his opinions, but he’s not willing to sit by and allow himself to be walked on by pretentious bitches who think they’re better than anyone else. While it bothers me that he severed ties with this friend of his from school, whom he has been friends with for several years, I would much rather he cut her off and out of his life than to keep her around and continue to feel bad about himself. On a less personal note, his opinions in the areas of politics and current events is much more informed and intuitive than I once thought. I had not realized how intellectual he has become, I knew he was smart, but to see the little boy who once ran headfirst into a concrete pillar and laughed it off, the child who fell in the apartment parking lot as a toddler and busted his head clear open.. the kid who would come in and tell stories of how he was picked on that given day because he wasn’t “like everyone else”.. I use to fear the day he would move out and have to live a life of his own. How would this kid make it in the world? Would he ever be ready to do it? None of us are ever really “ready”, but I have no doubts at all that he will be able to do it, and do it successfully no matter what direction his life takes. I’m sure he will make mistakes, I’m sure I will probably not agree or approve of every decision or choice he makes with how he lives his life. But he will not be one to allow everyone else to rule his life. HE will be the master of his own fate, the master of his own destiny. And knowing that I helped to create the person he has become makes me the proudest mother in the world.
