Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.
So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.
Ah, content. Content makes one content. But it's all about nostalgia, really. And I have enough of that - it was my hetday, after all. I had an idea of writing a book about it once but I lost my round tuit. To be honest, I'm in two minds about those days. We had some good ideas but we allowed the whole thing to be hijacked by commercial and political interests. the result you see all around you today.
Oh man! I was hooked by the entry title. A throwback entry of sorts was my suspicion as I waited the nano second it took to follow your newsfeed link here. I mean, I will take the 9 words plus two punctuations, don't get me wrong. I just would have liked more content.
Someone said something once about there being only seven stories in the world. Or maybe it was eight or even six.
No matter, the point is that I find this very hard to believe. I mean, it sounds good, but then you think of all the stories that are being written around the world today. And thatās not just those that get published. They all count, even those produced by impoverished nobodies living in garrets and hobbyists in writing clubs. That must amount to millions of stories every day. And Iām supposed to believe that, in all those myriads of new stories, thereās not one that cannot be classified under the unannounced titles proposed by whoever suggested so low a limit?
Sorry, but Iām not buying it. Iām even prepared to state (not bet - Iām not a gambling man) that most of us could separate our various writings into more than seven ātypicalā tales. And anyway, believing that there is a limit, is just a way to become discouraged that youāll ever produce something completely original. I have to believe otherwise.
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