Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Long Have I Waited…


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.