So . . . it took much longer than I’d planned (though not as long as I expected) but the first inaugural episode of Contingencies, my short fiction podcast, is now up. I don’t think there are too many people who still visit this site, but just in case a few of you still subscribe to the RSS feed and have ben wondering what’s going on go ahead and visit my www.maxstites.com to find out.
I think I’m done here. . .
So, a while back I announced I was putting this blog in stasis to concentrate on a podcast project I had in mind. It’s not ready yet, but the new site is under construction and recording is under way. I will post again when it all goes live and there is content to listened to and downloaded. For now, all you need to know is that it will be found here.
PS – Though it has never happened before, for some reason every time I’ve attempted to type the names “Max Stites” today all of my software has insisted on autocorrecting them to read “mastitis” That’s just not funny. Or is it?
When I started this blog in October 2009 I had no real plan. I had a title, an urge to cast my thoughts adrift on the waves of aether that compose the internet. At the back of my mind there was also some half-formed notion that, perhaps, The Omphaloskeptic would teach me enough about blogging, force me to write enough that, eventually, I’d find a more specific way of expressing myself in some other forum. I think that time has finally come.
Those of you who have continued to visit regularly will know that over recent weeks and months my stream of posts has run dry. That’s not because I’m not writing though; if anything I’m writing more. This just isn’t the proper space for what I’ve been working on. I don’t have the energy or the inclination to write for this blog so, for the foreseeable future I’m going to put it in the same box where Schrodinger stuffed his poor cat. Only time and the opening of the box will determine whether or not this thing is dead. Thanks to all of you who have visited and commented. I hope you’ll eventually follow me to what I’ll be doing instead.
So what is going to take this blog’s place? Well, sometime in the coming months I’ll be going live with a new site and a feed for a podcast that will involve me reading pieces of my original short fiction. At the moment I’ve got enough material to last for a good while, but I don’t have the know-how to produce a professional podcast. I’m working on that and, I hope, I’ll be able to start the ball rolling within the next two to three months. Please be patient; I suspect I’m facing a steeper learning curve that I anticipate and I will start to make my recordings available once I’ve got all my ducks in a row. For now I need to do things like design a site, register a domain name, find a host, choose a microphone, learn how to add the theme being written for me to the episodes etc. . .
I expect that the the next time I speak from this pulpit it will be to provide some more concrete details and dates and to check on how dead this cat really is . . .
Happy navel gazing everyone!
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