As the title indicates, this article — for lack of a better term — is to explain what the entire point of this whole ramblings section is. Simply put: it’s a place for me to talk about the things I like. On a broader scale, it’s a place for me to discuss storytelling and the way that I aspire to write through the lens of other pieces of fiction. And viewed from another perspective, it’s a way for me to toss out recommendations to you, my audience, on the things I like. All in all, I’d say it’s a place where I intend to bridge the gap between creator and audience. To acknowledge the fact that I’m part of an audience as well, that there are things I read, play, watch that influence and shape me and by extension my works.
I hesitate to call it a review blog or anything of the sort, because I’m really not reviewing anything. That’s not my role and it would be awfully hypocritical of me to criticize other people’s works when I’m far from perfect myself. For that matter, I’m already worried it’s wildly unprofessional for me to speak about other people’s works in a positive light. Thus, I promise you now that everything I talk about will be something I like. There can be a tacit recommendation understood in the very fact I’m talking about it. There may be times that I do criticize something, but that will only ever come from a place of love; a means by which I express my frustrations with something that I do enjoy and think is genuinely good (I’m not angry, just disappointed). At the end of the day, I want you, the audience, to read, play, watch these sorts of things too and hopefully enjoy them as much as I have. And then maybe you can see a little bit better why I write the way I do.
With all of this in mind, what — precisely — is it that I’ll be talking about? Well, like the home page says: I have a cultivated interested in storytelling. All stories are my friends, to put it rather glibly. Though I am a writer of what could be generously described a s literature, I don’t limit my consumption to that medium. Beyond books I also enjoy movies, television series, video games, comic books, anime and manga, board games and tabletop rpgs — all sorts of things. So when I talk about recommending these things to you, the audience, there’s also the hope that I can help perhaps help you find things you would have otherwise missed — broaden your horizons, to put it somewhat presumptuously. For instance, perhaps you come here as a fan of good old fantasy novels, the kind of stuff I’m trying not to shame through my writing. Well maybe you’ll find interest in a jrpg I talk about that fits a similar vibe but would usually stand outside your strike zone, as it were. And to the left, if maybe you stumbled on to this site because I talked about a manga that you like, then you’ll end up finding a few books that sound interesting to you. Stuff like that.
All of that being said, the one restriction I do want to keep in mind up front is that I want to try and keep this site family-friendly. While I do, generally speaking, intend to target my books at an adult audience, I intend that more as a level of complexity than thematic nature. Put another way, that’s meant more as intention than restriction. And so if younger audiences members do make there way here, I want to keep things appropriate for them. Quite simply, don’t expect me to talk about anything you wouldn’t be comfortable talking about in an exceedingly public forum. I’ll probably go more into what I mean by this later, but don’t hold any expectations to the contrary and don’t bother asking, the answer is no.
So with the introductions and such out of the way, I hope we can all have a good time sharing a bit of the world of storytelling.