The Beginning

So I’m starting fresh here. I’m not sure whether to be nervous or excited. I’m certainly consumed. Consumed with a desire to create. Consumed with the urge to hear the voice in my head read this back to me, like they do in the movies. People never read what they’re saying. They hear some narrator read it back to them. But I digress.

I was watching the movie Julie and Julia, and reached an epiphany. In the movie (and in real life of course) the main character Julie starts a blog, searching for herself by cooking through the entirety of Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. Her blog becomes successful, and she has a happy ending. I may not have a popular blog by the end of this endeavor, but that’s not really the goal. I’m sure someone out there is interested in my project.

“Project?” you ask. Well certainly I have a project. What blog could there be without some sort of purpose, some sort of direction? Mine is in creation. That is what my life has always been. Creation. Reaching into silence, into blank pages, and pulling out the beauty that is the essence of my understanding. I don’t feel that I impose myself much on the creation itself, but rather bring its essence to life the best way I know how. But yet again, I have not told you my project.

I have mentioned in a few videos (yes, I started as a videoblogger of the same screenname. That’s still going on if you want to check me out. But this page, this is a secret entity of its own. People can find me here if they look, but really, who will?) that I am working on a musical. This is precisely what I will document here. I’m not quite sure how yet; I’m not sure how frequently I will be able to update this and actually have updates to provide. I’m thinking, if I really apply myself, I’ll have interesting things to say weekly for sure, maybe twice a week, maybe having bonus posts for when I’m feeling particularly inspired. But here I will document the creation’s development from imagined, to seen, to understood, to written down, and finally to realized.

So what am I asking of you? Well, if you are a snivelling corporate spy who chooses to feed on what I have poured my heart and soul into, I ask that you kindly divert your efforts to someone who will be much more compliant. If you, however, are truly interested in what I’m doing, I ask simply that you express your intrigue. Nothing will excite me more than hearing that someone is equally excited.

And, of course, if you have connections in the business, people to recommend me to, places I should see, or any knowledge on the subject, I would be more than happy to hear what you have to say.

So here’s to a new year and a new creation. This will be a long journey, and a bumpy ride at that, but I hope that we can ride it out together.