A Random Rambling Digression

In keeping with my random postings I haven’t yet decided what to put up here for tonight, but I’m fairly certain that I will come up with something. I’m working on the second installment of Withering Flats, which I originally called “The Hi-Ho Funnies” in my journal when I wrote them over thirty years ago, but I wanted to give the series a less trite title. I wrote three ‘episodes’, each about two years apart and have decided to rewrite, refine and update them for presentation here. I hope to have the next one ready and posted over the upcoming weekend. I have a couple ideas for more Zlodt Bardo, Spaceman episodes, but I do not have one already worked out. The first one, Zlodt Bardo and the Space Pirate, I made up the day I posted the first half, about three weeks ago. The story turned out quite well and there will be more adventures in the future!

I do have a variety of short stories contained in my Making Sand collection, and I have posted some of these already (Master Bishu and the Genie, Realization and All in the Mind) but I don’t want to take too many from that source as I would like to publish them all as a complete unit. I also have taken excerpts from my book, Endless Shifting Sand (seeming to have some kind of affinity for sand), but again, I intend on publishing that and I don’t want to give away more than a taste here and there.

I also have random things I have written into the computer over the years, and I will throw some of those up occasionally, but that is a limited resource. My desire is to write more spontaneously and create interesting reads as I go, which was what the Zlodt and the Pirate story was. However, that takes a lot of time and energy and, at this time, I am not able to devote either of those in the quantities I would like. Yet I want to keep posting and keep adding to the collection of literary oddities that will, eventually/hopefully/someday, draw in readers and produce a following of people who enjoy what I write. My ambition is to become a writer/artist as a fulltime occupation and not have my creative talents be just fascinating hobbies, so I write (and draw) and believe that what I produce is good enough to warrant a closer look and thus develop a following. I have two followers so far, Dianne and Stringffellow1, and I am deeply and humbly grateful for their appreciation of my work.

I wasn’t intending to write in the direction that I did, but that’s where my words carried me and so that’s where we went. I will be write back...

Written by Michael Steven Platt 5-05-09 (Fell ease, sink the mayo)