I am trying to figure out how to spend my time these days while unemployed.
After I moved back to Savannah, GA in 2019, I began to write by hand what would become “Curated Jellyfish: A Paradise Lost”. That book is important to me and still, now in its 4th version, involves edits and handwritten notes to encorporate. Part of me questions the things that I would change knowing what I know now. It is part of the beauty of the book though and time is taken into account very clearly. Maybe I can work on that today.
After “Curated” went to both the printer and copyright office in 2019, the process of revision occurs in storytelling and what narratively makes sense to include/exclude. Nothing is ever really right at first pass in what is a 480+ page book. Still unnumbered as a battle continues in thought.
After that book was created and constantly revised I went about compiling the rest of my works and writings. I put together “Building Brave New Secrets” to showcase most work on the series from published/non-published forms. It starts with a work from 2004 that never hit the internet and in- between you get what is the introduction to “Curated” and the statement of a 9-Act story well into where “Disney Fairy Tale Weddings by Alfred Angelo” became #8 and the already conceived “Brave New Secrets” was in there as #9 which was started in 2013.
I like the idea of annotating “Building…” in a manner of clarity that fills gaps and answers logical questions. Pulled from the writing system of “Curated” where things need to clarified or expanded. I will not be using the green screen in processing of the verbal imagery there. Creative choices on established writing styles.
To retain all my works at the time, I went on to produce the companion to “Ugly Simple Truths” pulled from my blog but then also a separate artbook of the visual series. That book was never for sale publicly.
Then there is of course the artbook to “Heroes+Villains”, a hardbound beast that where limitations had and corrective design may come later but it was important to preserve, retain and claim my work that was impeded on and the breach of trust that occurred in 2018-2019.
After that I went on to rebuild my “Beautiful Layered Lies” artbook to include “Laying Lies to Rest” in what never really got fully explained but matters. A reset there of remembrance. Does that make a 10th Act or a reprocessing remake in a different perspective of memory and familiarity? That circular pattern of 9 becomes interesting to look at in hindsight and is very expansive.
Then there is “Chasing Jabberwocks”…again unfinished at 300+ pages and never hit the internet. I spoke of it yesterday to some degree where perhaps I would intertwine some of it with “Starving Artist” which sits around 100+ pages.
My self-editor version of “Brave New Secrets” was never finished, never hit any market and was still about 85-90% already in Curated Jellyfish. The expansion in there is further expanded in unscanned pages.
All that before even touching my handwritten journals into book form that does what some people think it does and total surprise to others including myself.
Whatever the reason for this as they are, the invasion of my property occurred and there is zero reason I should be drained back to zero or have any more conflict with prior arguments that could always be discussed civilly before. But that never occurred.
Where are we at now? What can I do? What can U do?
Either way…there was no reason for any of what happened to continue unless it truly is a never will happen again scenario in some respect while opening conversations of hello, how are you and going from there.
-Actively Seeking A Better Way Through Life