While I Ponder

I keep looking at this app and wondering what should I post here? Do you want to know about what’s happening with my writing? Or, maybe you want to know more about the person writing the books? Truth is outside of writing my books I haven’t done much engagement lately on any social communities.

My newest novel Death’s Sweet Whisper comes out on November 28th and with it comes the end of my Purgatory series. I enjoyed the process, but am glad to be done with it. I am already in process of writing my next novel and to some degree it has been a breath of fresh air to step out behind writing the same characters again.

Anywho, you are going to get more of a sense of who I am and what I work on in the future. For now, however I am going to give you a taste of who I was by sharing some old blog posts I created about 10 years ago when I was initially pushing myself to get more serious about writing. Enjoy.

Turkey and Time Travel
Originally published November 22, 2012

Late as usual but I have been on a bit of writing binge since last week. A majority of it has been in my personal notebooks because…well some stuff I just decide is not shareable. My mind has been in overdrive and the thoughts that have been taking place are right now at a level of complexity that I have not even fully been able to decipher myself.

I have been dealing with a few health issues which has had me more than run down the last few weeks. Between that and my busy work schedule writing for my blogs has been more limited than I would like. But that’s all the warm and fuzzy shit beyond the point of this entry.

So tonight I was watching a show on conspiracy theories and they happened to be covering a favorite topic of mine, time travel. It got me thinking though, what if time travel were really possible, what would I do, where would I go, would I try and alter something or maybe use knowledge of the future to make my present better.

I really had to sit and think about this for a little bit, this all kinds of blends into where my mind has been since last weekend trying to understand some of the larger elements in life. When it came down to it though I decided I would want to give myself a glimpse of my future. I decided this for a few reasons:

1. I chose the future over the past because in all honesty the paths I have chosen, while they may have not always been the easiest they have formed me into a person that I am comfortable being.

2. In theory the future is only based on the current path my life is being played out on, meaning if I didn’t like what I saw, it would just be an indication that I needed to change something currently to erase the future that I had seen.

3. Well the future just seems more interesting.

So like I said I would just give myself a glimpse into the future versus a full reveal. Think of it like this, I would give myself the “How I Met Your Mother” preview. I am always curious to where my relationships with women will develop so I would go into the future far enough to a point when I am married again, but would only get a rearview, no face. I would be more curious as to the situation of the marriage not necessarily to whom. If it is a good situation, will I go back to the present being content and knowing the path I am working on is the correct one? If however, I see something that is not to my liking, do I go back to the present and adjust actions to correct?

There is always however the possibilities of a paradox where my future-self had already made this journey and the situations I saw was as a result of my attempted corrective actions. Ahh the wonders of messing with the space-time-continuum.

So tell me this, if you could travel in time what would you do, where would you, why would you go there?

Have a Happy Turkeyday Everyone!