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In the year 2014, I started publishing my stories for all to see. Well, all
on Facebook, anyway. And publish is a strong word. I was posting them
at least. I wrote the first one on my phone, using a notes app. It was
rather poetic, and not very much like my usual style. I don’t recall now
what prompted me to start doing this. I suppose that I was tired of being
rejected by literary agents, and ready for people to see my work, whether I
was getting paid for it or not. Months later, I started working on my
Blogger website, and ported all of the content from Facebook over. It wasn’t
that much at the time, but it would become a lot soon. By then, I had come
up with a long-term plan, instead of just writing something up day by day,
and sending it off. I made a master list, and a rigid schedule. Sundays
would be for my continuous main story, Saturdays for longer stories, and
weekdays for really short bits. Then I had to start devising narrative
ideas. The Advancement of Mateo Matic was already there. I thought of
the idea of a character unwillingly being sent forward in time probably a
year or two prior, but didn’t know what I would do with it, since it was
before the site. I merged it with a preexisting title that was for a
completely different series, and really started to focus on that. I had a
couple ideas for the Saturday mezzofiction, but they wouldn’t last long, so
that was a constantly evolving situation. The microfiction stories were the
wild west in the beginning. I was still just coming up with one story at a
time, which didn’t have anything to do with each other. It wasn’t until
Bellevue Profiles later in 2015 that I started to see potential for
complete series.
Okay, this has all taken me longer than I thought it would, particularly the
post that I wrote for what will be yesterday for you, and I really feel like
I just need to turn myself in to the police. I’m just procrastinating, and
for what? I only have a few hundred followers at this point. I guess I’m
only going to be scheduling two days out. That gets me through Friday, and I
don’t post these on weekends anyway, so that’s practically four days. Maybe
they’ll stick me in one of those jail cells with a computer and an internet
connection. They have those, right? I dunno, this universe is unfamiliar to
me. There’s more to get into about how my blog operates, so maybe I’ll get
around to it later. When I finally do get internet access back—if ever—I’m
sure I will have so much to catch you up on. I might have joined a prison
gang, and gotten a tattoo. Or not. Wish me luck, or to break a leg, or
whatever you people say around here.
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