When I decided to start writing ODHSNM again, I
thought I’d begin with an explanation of why I hadn’t blogged for so long.
It’s been nearly three years since I last wrote anything on
here.
Three YEARS of real-world measured time.
It hasn’t just SEEMED like three years - it really was.
But then I looked back and noticed that I had opened roughly
one in every three posts since 2014 apologising for not having blogged for ages.
As if anyone cared.
So I’m not going to do that. I’ve been away for three years
and now I’m back. It happened. You lost. Get over it. Etc.
To be honest, I thought about starting all over again with a
new blog. Looking back at the last ten years of ODHSNM I have to cringe
at some of the hot takes I’ve put forward, some of the political positions I’ve
advocated and some of the pretentious drivel I have foisted upon the world.
Please feel free to search the Blog Archive on the right for
something “problematic”.
I’m sure you’ll find something you don’t like.
But I decided NO!
NO!
This is all part of my “creative output” and so I’ll keep it
here on the internet as a testament to the lived experience of whatever on
earth I had been thinking at the time – even if I can’t figure out what that
was now myself.
If I said something I no longer agree with, it’s because I’ve
changed my mind.
Can you believe that? In 2020? Someone changed their mind
and admitted to it?
Sometimes, I changed my mind because new facts came to my attention.
Sometimes, I realised that things I had thought were right
were, in fact, wrong or incompatible with other things I think are right.
I know.
Quaint.
Anyway, there are a few good ones on here:
So NO! The past happened, for good or ill. I’m leaving it
there.
What you can expect on “New ODHSNM” (which we may henceforth
abbreviate to NODHSNM) will be a little different from what has gone
before.
Because one of the main reasons I haven’t been blogging is
that I have been writing a novel.
And now it’s nearly finished.
And I’m going to release it as a paperback and an e-book in
the near future.
So I’m going to write about that.
Because if there’s one thing the world needs more of, it’s
people writing about writing.
LOL.
Wish me luck.
