Black As My Soul: I Have Decided to Edit My Old Stories

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February 4, 2007

I Have Decided to Edit My Old Stories

It's been a long time. I don't know if they have aged well, or not… But I want to go back and look at what I started.

There are also any number of stories and situations that I never completed, for a variety of personal and creative reasons. I don't promise to finish stories that are three or four years old, but It could happen.

What I want to do for the most part is to re-edit them into a more traditional and linear format. My old blog entries (and therefore stories) came from a period of time when I felt reasonably safe with a browser window open to my site all day long. Any and every pervy thought made it past my (admittedly weak) internal censor and on line. I'm not saying that was good or bad. However, in the current iteration of this site, I think it makes the stories harder to read.

Before, all of my posts only had a time stamp. There was also no title or category. So text in a post could be stand-alone or refer to the one before. Sometimes I intended my posts to do both—It was intentionally free-form and stream-of-consciousness.

When I brought them here to this site and this blog tool, categorizing and titling the posts broke them. There I things I wrote that I have no idea any longer what I meant or who it might have been directed to.

Suffice it to say, instead of bending this tool back to fit those posts, I'm going to re-edit to make the stories flow better and to possibly make them more portable.

I don't intend to make many changes to the original posts. They will retain all of the original spelling and grammar errors and reside at the same URLs.

But I am going to take the old stories and dress them in new clothes.

I won't promise this will happen tomorrow or anything. It always took me many hours to write those little vignettes and time feels so fleeting, anymore. But it is something I feel inspired to do of late.

Thanks, RG. I still love your work.

[+] Posted by Sinner, who was transgressing at the time (February 4, 2007 10:52 PM) by creating evil. [+]