a different perspective

There's something so lovely and perfect about published authors' blogs. They are not what you'd call works of art, by all means, as entries merely pose as breaks from their high-tension, deadlined works their careers depend on. And it's to keep the author connected to fans who truly express the word "fanatic" through their support.

A blog is to an author as Dr. Watson is to Sherlock Holmes; it is merely there to help sort out your own ideas into a coherent explication of the day's curiosities, thoughts, and musings.

Laurie R. King's blog is just this. http://www.laurierking.com/wp.php/
She'll be at the Royal Oak Public Library to speak about her Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series. I'm quite excited, needless to say, to discuss philosophy and Theology; the latter, which I am becoming increasingly interested in, was one of the lone things she chose to study in University. Talk about a high risk and low-paying career choice. But it's admirable, wouldn't you agree? To want something and like something so much that the suffocating idea of finance no longer controls and hinders. It's very refreshing.

And I know things like this person - this successful, dorky author - happen daily but without acknowledgment lest he, or she, wins some highfalutin award. It's so frustrating to me. There is so much brilliance that is never seen, recognized, nor experienced, and people don't mind so long as they don't know what they're missing. It's really fascinating what a fatalistic, complacent, and passive mind can do to someone's intentions and expectations. Even a mind that means well sometimes will overlook the obvious and end up a fool. It's quite common now-a-days, as things get faster and faster in pace; no one's got time, anymore.