I was walking back home from a class today. I was looking around the campus and seeing all the interesting things around here that I’ve missed. I’ve probably never said this, but I’m an arts and technology student at the University of Texas at Dallas. I spend most of my time in the ATEC building, maybe the arts and humanities building if I take a random literature class. There are entire buildings on this campus I’ve never been inside. I really wanted to explore, take pictures, document my findings, make stories.
Then I realized: I don’t have anywhere to post that.
When this blog began, it was primarily for Forcastia. It was ONLY for Forcastia. When I wrote for this blog, I took on this persona of a creator of a world, interested in all the different facets of his living creation, but utterly disinterested in all other things.
And I got to thinking – that’s not really what I want to do anymore.
The character of the Avatar is an in-world representation of me, the author. But the Avatar’s character shouldn’t be disinterested in everything that isn’t Forcastia – he should be interested in both worlds. That’s why I’ve decided to use this blog more like a blog and less like a place to drop a Forcastia-related thought and call that updating my website. The thing I keep learning about the arts – literature, painting, sculpture, photography, digital creation – is that to truly understand an author’s work, you need to know the context behind their work. What their lives were like. Their hopes, their dreams, their values, their fears.
It’s about time I, as an author, gave that to you.
