**Edited Dec 27, 2014: I've decided to just be myself and not hide behind a fictional character. I'm taking my name back. She'll come back under another name, I'm sure, because her story is rather interesting.**
When I first started the blog, I wanted to explore what it would be like to chronicle acting the part of a character on Facebook. I thought it would be silly and totally unrelated to my real life. It turns out I'm not a very good actress. I keep breaking character on Facebook and I keep choosing to write blog posts as The Author. So I'm thinking of dropping the act and just being myself. The biggest mistake I made was of using the moniker "Ms Myrrh" for my character, since that name has been MY name for a good while. I'm going to go back to using Ms Myrrh as my own name, now, just to confuse the heck out of everyone (insert lame, self-deprecating joke about how no one reads this blog, anyway, so it really doesn't matter).
Which leads me to my next self-reflecting topic: genre. I keep trying to focus on having the blog be good at one thing: deliver short fiction and some non-fiction posts with a BDSM theme. Oddly enough, I'm just like everyone else and, while I love sex and talking about sex and thinking about sex and writing about sex, I also love and care about a lot of other things in life. I'm finding it challenging to remain on-point. I keep wanting to discuss current events.
But I'll be good. I'll keep this blog floating in its little castle in the air, free from reality (other than promoting safe, sane, consensual BDSM, since that's all about reality) and maybe I'll just start another blog. Except that will mean more work, since I'm pretty serious about posting here every day, and I've been feeling lazy lately. Perhaps "lazy" isn't the right word. It's more like -- choosy, maybe. I'm less inclined to commit to things because I know how deleterious it is to be overbooked.
My main issue, now, is whether or not to go back through all the posts I've published so far and modify/correct them with regard to Ms Myrrh or just leave everything as-is and let readers be just as confused as I am.
Warmly,
Ms Myrrh, The Author
No comments:
Post a Comment