Fifteen years ago when I left LA, my buddy Jason created a blog space for me-sort of as a going away present. It was appropriately named the Wil World. It had a really funny picture on the home page. A 50’s or 60’s housewife with her head buried deep in an oven. Was she cleaning the oven? Was she sniffing gas? It wasn’t very clear but it seemed at the time a metaphor for my life.
I wrote on it for a bit, had a good time with it, had a few people reading it. To say I wasn’t in a good head space at the time is sort of like saying Hurricane Irma was a tropical depression. It gave me an outlet, but I think I got a little too real. I wrote a fictional piece on there right around Halloween that was so real I had a few people call to see if I was still alive. I wish I’d saved that piece, but I got distracted by a few things and lost interest in the blog and the next thing you know I lost the log in information and now the original TheWilWorld is collecting cosmic dust out there in some long forgotten corner of the information superhighway.
So I’m back. I have a few things to say. I’ll be saying them on here instead of on the social medias, which weren’t really a thing yet back then.
I’m working on this thing. I wanna be an author. I’ve always been a writer. I like to write, have at times in my life had a technicolor kaleidoscope relationship with telling the truth, I have a healthy imagination and as Mark might tell you I have a strong sense of drama. So, there’s this story. I’ve written 12,000 words, which is like 40 pages. I had what I thought was a great opening scene, I knew where I wanted to take it, but I didn’t have a strong sense how to get there. I have pages of notes, character on index cards with descriptions and index cards for the scenes I’ve written. What I didn’t have, for some really stupid reason, was an outline.
I’ve done an outline now. I’m listening to a couple of writing podcasts. I’m talking to a few people. I’ve rewritten the opening scene. I almost feel strong enough to show it to someone. Yay me. I’m feeling good about it.
The Wil World 