Darkthorn’s Blog

When I sit down to write I need a good topic. My usual ones just aren’t doing it for me today. Need something happier to write about, but really, I don’t usually think of many happy things. Serious issues, like the ones that control my life just attack me sometimes, and say ‘write’. Not so today.  If I can just get out of the trap of just writing what I am thinking and write something decent… In the mean-time, sentences can get longer and longer.

Seems to me that there might be a limit to the number of poems I can write. Only so many depressing topics, but rants on random things I think I can manage. Need a topic, any topic. Don’t want to exhaust my brain too much though.

Today’s goal is to get at least one news story written up and the next one I want to have at least a couple of questions made up so that I can ask my old music teacher about them tomorrow. So much to do, so much time, that’s my problem. I can keep on putting things off for ages. Need more motivation. I really must write my bibliography for my first assignment as well.

I wrote another short story this morning from my dream of last night, slightly edited of course. It won’t go up today or tomorrow though, because today you got a poem already and tomorrow is another chapter of the “real novel”. I’m attempting to make a series of stand alone short stories that can still be linked into a whole. The advantage of publishing online is that I can choose what I write. Whatever I write is good, and no matter how bad I think it is, someone out there will likely want to read it.

I got an email this morning from a reader, saying that it was good. That made me feel happy, because I was having some doubts. Yesterday I spent some time reading some other online novels, and they seemed so much better than mine, more detailed and stuff. Not to mention they are bigger than I am. This site is still in its infancy, so I suppose I shouldn’t worry so much. There are now apparently 36 people who have visited this site. Who knows if they got what they wanted/expected? Some of the search terms used to find this are very very random. I’m surprised someone search for them in the first place. My goal is to have at least 100 readers by the end of the year. You guys have to help me out. I can’t afford to advertise, so remember, word of mouth is cheap.

~ Darkthorn