Oh, how the passage of time does a number on me (dare I say, us all?)
As the days, weeks, months and years so effortlessly fleet on by, I can’t help but find writing so fascinating a craft. How I can put something down (ostensibly, something I genuinely like), have separation from it for a few months (read: paying off the damn bills), but upon my return be met with something about it that just… doesn’t sit right.
While half of the time I do wonder if it’s just me (wouldn’t be the first, nor the last), perspective is king, for I am but it’s slave.
And doesn’t it know it.
I know I’ve said it before, but it is to this end that I have to admit I’m proud of Objectivity – not so much what’s called the first edition, mind you, but the second (that is, the current version publicly available) has no shortage of meat on its bones.
But yes, there are things about it that – it has to be said – I no longer particularly care for (and when pertaining to something I have created, the struggle to be critical is not real).
So, it’s time for a third edition.
Truth be told, when I consider the journey per se (or should I say the distance that’s being travelled), it’s actually more a 2.5. Just… one or two finer edges to be chipped away at (so to speak).
I’m actually a bit disingenuous here. Not just because those values so wildly fail to encapsulate how many hundreds (nay, thousands) of times I have been through this thing, but also because I did actually start this some time ago.
‘Tis just that now, I seek to kick it into high gear.
I don’t necessarily subscribe to a time frame, but I’d like it out there by the end of 2023 – and bonus points for also having physical copies of it in hand by then.
Let’s go.