Blogging
doesn't come easy for me.
It's
not that I lack material or writing time. My problem is picking the
'right' stories to tell. You see, I'd eventual like to be a paid
storyteller and to do that I need to gather a following willing to
pay. There is a lot of pressure to stick on topic.
I
write 'not-quite-high' fantasy with a generous helping of
over-thinking. (High fantasy is Tolkien's realm, low fantasy isn't a real genre to my knowledge.) While my thoughts on Pres. Trump's tariff policy are interesting, that sort of post won't help me find readers
for Tales of Mundus.
A
better line of approach is through humor or my experiences world
building. However, not all of these are good topics either.
For
example, the story of how I broke my nose or of when I found ants in
my coffee maker are both hilarious. (I could make a whole other
author persona on 'crazy crap that proves the universe is out to get
me.') My quality checkers strongly advise I don't post those on the
world wide web. Considering one is a P.R. Major, I'll listen to that.
The
back-story of Mundus is interesting, but nearly impossible to post
without spoiling works I have in progress. Fun fact, intellectual
copyrights are NOT short-story optimized. Because I want to get
payed, I have to protect my characters and world from poachers. (This
is the internet.) Besides, Tales of Mundus is my brainchild,
it would be like a kidnapping where you find out they've been sold to a sweatshop that became a million dollar franchise.
Now,
some people make be thinking 'just suck it up and write.' Well, I do
write... then review and remember it has to go online. I've axed
three blog posts in two weeks – they just didn't work on a
storyteller's blog.
It seems I took this proverb a little too well - speech is silver; silence is golden.
