Current Hobbies

For the past few months I've been concentrating more on writing than on my artwork. I've had these tidbits of stories bouncing around in my head for years now and really think I turn them into full blown stories if I can manage to take advantage of time without distraction to work on them. It's difficult to work on anything that requires my full attention when I'm not alone in the house... there's always something going on that diverts my attention or makes demands of my time.

At the present time I have two stories that I am trying to incorporate into one. One is about a repeat dream that I actually had about 26 years ago. It was when my daughter was still in the womb. This dream became a regular experience every night for a period of about 3 months. It reached a point where as soon as it started my sleeping mind would recognize it for what it was, and yet I still had no control over it. It was exactly the same every night without variance.

In my endeavour to utilize this "dream" as part of another, and totally fictitious story line, I decided that I had to write it in the third person. The delivery of the story is by means of a storyteller found by the main character of the story in a pub. This all takes place somewhere in Western New York, (ummm.. probably because that's where I am right now...LOL)

With respect to the rest of the story, "the fictitious part" I believe the old storyteller will offer the opportunity to best deliver that plot line as well. In pondering the overall picture of the story "as the storyteller relates it" I've begin to notice an underlying story that surrounds him and the main character that is going to allow the story to continue as time goes on.

Before this though I spent the past couple of years searching photographs I've taken of deseased trees for hidden images and patterns. Including the photographs taken and the pictures and patterns I've created from them I now have over 16,000 pictures saved on my external hard drive. I'll have to go through and make some thumbnails which will still show some detail so I can show you what I'm talking about... I'll wait until then to give you a more in depth explanation of what I was doing. It would just get lost in the words if I tried now.