Hello,
Since I was last here, my family and I are learning how to live again.
Dad passed away in January, after a terrible 4 weeks, which was the tail end of a terrible 18 months or so. During that time, we had a home invasion, multiple medical emergencies, and in the background, the world shuddered and shuttered under a pandemic. I am still re-learning about how to deal with things and with myself.
In my last post I mentioned that I joined a writing group. My membership continues.
It has been fruitful and friend-filled. I am grateful. I am sad too. And I am hopeful.
In my second cohort, I wrote about the concept of space both in astrophysics and in metaphysics. In my third cohort, I have created a story set in the future. I will join the next cohort, cover the Metaverse, art history and whatever I discover along the way.
I include below links to two “twitter” threads of the last 60 atomic essays.
The first set cover time, space, the Metaverse and NFTs.
The second set was later made into a chronologically ordered story, with music added.
Two threads covering Greek and Chinese mythology, the Great War and WW 2, spaceflight, the Metaverse, NFTs, art, and more. Ada Lovelace and Babbage, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leo Szilard and others from history are featured. Something for everyone.
All in service to ideas about tomorrow and then, fiction. The 2 threads are below.
First is an example from the February - March cohort, where I challenged myself to write about “space” in different ways, going from outer to inner space of the self.
A piece about DaVinci’s Last Supper, an early example of virtual reality.
A thread to 30 ideas covering physics, metaphysics, Metaverse, NFTs, and art.
With nods to DaVinci, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Apollo astronaut Frank Borman and more. I cover also the idea of Infinite Game + Scenius = Infinite Scene.
A thread of 30 posts, all out of “order”, fiction essays which are all standalone with nuggets about myths, history and technology, so that all readers get something.
First an example and then the thread of 30 atomic stories, most with lessons from myths, history, and technology, as intros to each piece.
In this example, I begin with some of early American Aviation history, and then tie it to the characters of the year “2X21”.
Here is a link to 30 atomic fiction essays below.
This 30 part story, written with only an idea of the ending and done extemporaneously, became a story that was “filled in” over 4 weeks. It’s been turned into 1 story below.
It’s set in the year “2X21”, with a solar system wide civilization dealing with life after a great crisis, a “Long War” of attrition, leaving its survivors seeking “escape” in multiple metaverses which make up the “System’s Whole’Verse” but it’s in danger.
Below is a preview image of the Notion page hosting the story. It has a music playlist.
Next up, I will learn about the Metaverse, beginning first a detour to the 17th Century.
I will write a new story with the upcoming cohort.
I will call it “1648”. It begins but does not end there.
I will think and learn about art, money and technology, as I figure out a story.
I know what I have been doing won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. It’s not supposed to be.
We are each and everyone of us, not one thing or one moment. We are impatient but if we place ourselves into an “infinite scene”, we can rediscover and recreate ourselves.
If you read this far, then thanks. If you have moved on, then good luck to you.
Life is short, we should each do our best, and do no harm along the way.
Good luck.