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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland ** Image ID #1701066 Unavailable **   |
| "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" DAY 1845 January 4, 2019 In your own non-fiction,have you struggled with representing yourself honestly while being conscious of how others might view you? Do you have any suggestions for non-fiction writers? My one suggestion, and it is a personally difficult one for me to make, is to always "write your truth" - regardless of the reaction that might provoke in others. Understand that you will never go wrong being true to yourself and whatever you write will have credibility because it is written from that place of honest emotion - even if that means facing opposition from others. I have written several pieces over the years that, for one reason or another, have put me at odds with loved ones and family members. While their duress was an unfortunately side effect of my writing, I could justify it only by saying I never censor my non-fiction. I always write from a place in my heart, that is the only way I can assure my writing is as honest and as candid as it should always be. It has not always gone well admittedly but I take pride in that fact that I have never compromised my writing for anyone. I've never set out to intentionally disparage anyone, never written anything out of spite or malice. I have however, written with unflinching honest about my feelings and perceptions, my opinions and my thoughts - and that has been enough at times, to leave me more isolated than I would have imagined. At the end of the day, my non-fiction work represents me most accurately and it is the part of my craft I give the most credit too. I protect my integrity as a writer even though it is not the easy path sometimes. "Blogging Circle of Friends " DAY 2238 January 4, 2019 First loves are often depicted in literature as feverish obsessions that last forever. Let's discus one example of this type of obsession or better described as a toxic romance between Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Has romance writing evolved from Bronte's time? What's more marketable classical romance or modern romance? Do you think today's readers can relate to this kind of obsession or would they be turned off by it? I've never been a huge fan of romance. I think while there are some lovely virtues around the classical romances like that of Catherine and Heathcliff, that kind of romance can not help but seem dated. Society has changed so much as it relates to social norms and romantic interactions. However, clearly given the success of the Fifty Shades franchise, there is a still a market for obsession soaked romance. I personally saw Mr. Gray as borderline psychotic but that's just me. I tend like my romance with a little kink but a lot less crippling insecurity. |
| 30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT January 4th High schoolers graduating this year, in May 2019, are as old as the first iPod. Make a prediction for how technology will advance in the next 18 years. I might be weird but talking about advancements in technology always makes me feel a little strange and uncomfortable. I've never been huge into technology (I refrained from getting a smart phone for years!) and so thinking about how much it will advance in the next 18 years seems like a task I am not equipped well to tackle. In 18 years I will be in my early 60's and my only child will be 27 and likely well into her own life. I honestly can't imagine what life will be like then on a ground level let alone as it relates to technological advances! I hope when I hit my 60's I'm at least planning a more "unplugged" existence...maybe even running a tiny, little beach side B&B in the keys perhaps? But in case I am still working then (which is pretty bloody likely) and for the purposes of the prompt, let me see.... I imagine by then that we will have fully automated self driving cars - we are quite close to that now I think. I am almost certain we will have found a way to capitalize off space travel, enabling those uber rich private citizens to be among the first to not only travel too but stay on the moon in some ultra-exclusive version of an Airbnb courtesy of NASA. I think we could see many more kiosk-based service, for everything we could need from food to pharmacies. If you need or want to acquire anything, there will be a colorful and user-friendly kiosk for that. I would like to believe technology will also make major advances to aid in supporting our environmental - from new sources of sustainable energy to finding ways to grow produce in arid deserts and in more of those inhospitable habitats. I would hope that in the next 18 years technology has figured out ways to make our schools safer, or at least figured out how to make people stop blowing past school buses on our roads. I really hope by the time I am in my 60's, technology has enabled our CT DOT so people do not have to take the day off of work to register their cars! But, I also really hope technology then won't have rendered many of our hard working men and women obsolete, hasn't afforded people the ability to design perfectly engineered super children or crafted humanoid-like robots that eventually take over the world and force technology-challenged individuals like myself to live in community hovels near the edges of landfills  |
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