It's ironic to me that every time I've admitted to hsving difficulty coming up with something to write for the blog, it magically spews out of me. For example, I've been a bit elated after finishing up the last several post in such a short amount of time, and yet, I had to skip a Short Story Weekly post to do it. I've been doing well, and I replaced it with a poem instead, but it's still not the same. This week, I'm going to write one, I've been working on it for a while, but I think it's time for it to come to life, and I'll be certain to have it finished before the week is done.
I have to admit, I'm looking forward more and more to Halloween with every single passing day. I know this doesn't bode a great amount of enthusiasm that I want to be done with these short stories for (in the foreseeable future) good, but that I can move on to other ideas, a fresher perspective.
I've been foggy lately, ignoring my writing, and chastising myself for not doing more. I love seeing quotes from different writers braking into the mainstream that say that their fans will never be as hard on them as they are hard on themselves. This is almost a mantra that all great writers recite, and would-be writers imitate to sound as though they're professionals. Yet, it's an exactitude that bears so much truth, I have to only say "ditto", because I too am hard on myself, always second, third, and fourth-guessing myself on what pretzel live written.
My biggest concern now is summer. I hate, hate, hate staying inside during the summer season. I'll read on the deck,meven doodle in a composition notebook, and move on, but what it does to me most that stifles my creativity is the beauty,the awe of the season, and the blistering heat that makes me pant like a mangy dog wrapped in swaddling heat blankets, tossed in an infrared oven that makes me not want to sit at a chair, and type. Double hell-no if that is a leather chair, because we all know that skin and leather always try to make a serious connection,mand the break-up never ends well for you when you decide to pull away. This also leads to side-effects like aquarium ass,(this is similar to swamp-ass, but much more dank of a feeling, as though you have on swim trunks duct-tapped to you, and water is swashing around your junk, and it has that distinct smell of an aquarium, like the water has fifty kinds of fish piss in it, not even the bleach can "febreeze" it away) and you wanna chill in the pool, or pull Homer Simpson and make a tent by an open freezer door. Either was, writing is the last thing on your mind.
All kidding aside, I find myself trapped in those dog days, watching shark week, and robots battle to the death again like I was fourteen years old again. I'm currently watching Shark Week, which iis my favorite week of the entire year. I'm a "finbassador", having always been fascinated with sharks, I do my best to tell people that they are one of the most important animals in the ecosystem. I'm also a sincere ambassador for the vulture, which is an endangered, important species of bird that is not only crucial the environment around it, but to ecosystems as far away as Antartica (hypothetically speaking of course, but new evidence is proving that these janitorial birds are far more important to life than we could ever have imagined.) I've spoken on now awesome sharks are, I've talked about shark week several years ago.
So when I'm watching sharks eat fake seals, and battling robots compete for a giant lug nut, while intravenously weaving the different X-Games in-between, it's almost a dodgy subject to even bring up writing, let-alone reading during this time of year. The joke is, I do read a lot during the year,a so I'm definitely up for buying some new books, especially since I've not bought a "new" book in over a year. But you're not I rated in my reading habits, you want to read a post that is more than just Ramblings. So what is the point of this post? Is it just another blasé editorial, whining about nothing? No! I assure you I'm in a much better mood, and this is going to be a new direction for the blog, and posts of this caliber!
I've stated after I finished the E3 posts I wanted to take this blog in a new direction, at least more often than not, and I am sticking to that promise. I'm no longer going to do the Backwards Comparability posts, which to me, have not been that extensive, nor intriguing to write, there's nothing shocking of redoing all shit, and even if the posts were more jokes on reiterating what was already rehashed, there was just nothing intriguing about repeating that older shit is always better than newer,mar least in remakes,mbecsue a originals always seem to be done with a certain definitive attitude, whereas remakes are what a particular director felt something should've been the first time, and usually thwt vision is to fulfill a more politically-motivated discussion, rather than to remaster something extraordinary, and make it better. So those posts are done. Short Story Weekly, as mentioned several times, reiterated here only for chronicalling, will be finished by this Halloween.
However, I will be replacing the aforementioned posts come December with a new group of posts, but knowing my short stories were quite popular, I can assure you 100% that I'm not abandoning that group of readers. For years I've been attempting to publish short stories, and get some publications under my belt. I actually enjoy doing short story weekly posts, but by late November, I hope to have a reliable internet connection,mand spending a great deal of time trying to publish online, and from the Writer's Market. I will have had published (if all goes accordingly of course, so factoring in for complications, December would be the very, very latest) my novel The Divine (which a sample is currently up now on this blog. I hate to shamelessly promote, but it would seem insincere to mention it now.) through Amazon KDP.
I will still continue to occasionally post a story, or even quips from my life, but I want to make sure 2017 is my year, because I'll be posting almost every single day once I'm able to, and it'll be of a much higher quality, because it will not feel like it has to be truncated, to my iPad application. This application really needs an upgrade with spellcheck, because I get so many damn typos that simply get glossed over, even Autocorrect starts to make them normalized auto fills. So the good news is that I'll be posting more often, in more versatile topics, and add other media (photos, audio perhaps, and much more range/depth to everything. I'll also be doing more Twitch, because I personally think it will be a funnway to connect with people, and i have some ideas that involve games, film, and other media that will be both fun/exciting.
2016 has been my best year so-far for the blog,, accumutively viewed more now than its entire history. I'm absolutely grateful for that, thanks to everyone out there who comes to the Malacast Editorial every single day/week. I believe that this blog can run (easily) another five/six years, and I will make sure it stays as fresh as possible, with more insight, more news, and more of the same, and a lot more new. Last year I didn't keep a hardline journal of NaNoWriMo, this year, I'm going to be doing one,mlike the first year I've attempted, and I will make sure to add in how I'm feeling as I reach 50K words! Last year I did it realtively fast, and this year will be a whole new story (no sequels/tie-ins, etc.)
But that's old news, what will be new? Twitch was mentioned, and I will be running Fallout 3, alongside my co-host Edgsr Holves come next month! I will have an official post up with the exact date and time. I have not used Twitch before, but it's going to be fun, and probably a complete train-wreck. Still, it will be fun to see how it goes. We've been planning this run for a few months now,mand details will be released on the announcment post, and in the description during the run. If you've seen the game run before,mi seriously suggest you dial in, because it will be a unique run, with commentary from yours truly, and my brother Edgar Holves!
You can follow him on Twitter:
Twitter.com/FunNYFisherman.
And you can follow me on Twitter as well: Twitter.com/mcasteditorial I will normally follow-back, and I do RT.
I've changed both the mobile site, and the desktop site's design again, this one is a lot more summer-like, not sure iff it's easier on the eyes as well, but so-far I've not heard any complaints on the color scheme. There isn't much more news coming this way yet about any more serious changes to the site, but I'll be sure to add any/all news and/or redactions to upcoming posts. This update post is also set to remind you all again that I will have, by the end of the week, a new Short Story Weekly post will be up, and it will be the aforementioned Siesta of Grief.
I've also made a vow to no longer write about writing, because I feel the topic has been exhausted. Instead, I'll be doing op-ed pieces on far-and-wide topics. I've done one about human sexuality, and I may do ones on topics that are both familiar and obscure. I have a surprising wealth of knowledge on multiple topics, and a very perceptive point-of-view, but I will do my best to stay out of the political scheme of things now, because it has turned into nothing more than disgusting click bait, and I may have ads, but I promise to never click bait anyone on this site. I'm not so sure about the ads themselves, but I will admit the one monetization system I use is eerily similar to, of not blatant click-baiting,mbut I will personally never do it.
So for now I will leave you all to digest this information, and I will have the newest #SSWkly up ASAP. Thank you all for reading my humble little blog, and know I appreciate everyone who comes around to read the posts. I may have to organize the blog a bit more, I wish I knew how to make it more user-friendly, but wwhen I have enough time to sit down and mess around with it, I'll be sure to do a nice clean-up. Until next time!
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