In the Future, I'm Not Writing About My Future

On Monday, we had the privilege of meeting Mr. Jim Odom, an author who has published a book! On this eventful day, many things were discussed. Let's take a look...

We discussed several ways of publishing a book or other literary work. This was extremely interesting as I one day hope to self-publish a book. And...that's really all I have to say about that.

The second thing we talked about was his writing style. He had some unique ideas but I didn't particularly agree with them. I have a different writing style and I like to write in different, strange ways. I'm either very serious or very silly. Or something in between like this, where I need to be serious but I want to be silly, so I manage to shove some weird random stuff in between serious sentences. Read: previous sentence. And that concludes this portion of...I'm not sure.

If I could ask one question, it's "If you could write about anything regardless of how long or difficult it would be, what would you write about?" I'd ask this because it's a silly question. The answer is, of course, "What I'm writing about now." Because to an author, it doesn't matter. We write what we want to write about. The end. Period.

In one year, I see myself being one year old. In five years, I see myself being five years older. In ten years, I see myself being ten years older. In fifty years, I see myself being dead. Nah, I'd just be fifty years older. In all reality, I just want to live. Computer programming? Sure. Writing? I'm okay with that. A nice car? It's not essential but hey I'll take it if it comes. I'm not really thinking about the future, at least not like this question wants me to. I'm on the path I'm on and if I decide to change it later on I will, but right now this is where I'm heading.

The picture is the newly announced Microsoft Lumia 950 XL. It's a gorgeous powerhouse of a phone and one day I'd like to be a developer programming applications for Windows 10 (this phone runs Windows 10).