Visitors...

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I'm back!!!

​Wow, it's May, suddenly!

It's been a while, both since I posted here, and since I have written anything: a short story, a poem, anything. Life has happened. It has been crazy. And, with the craziness, have come a few unexpected changes. Both that, coupled with the fact that I was a bit worn down as a writer after striving to put up at least one, but often two pieces a week here during my Spooktober promotion have led me to not write much the past several months.

​Nevertheless, I still will write on! I only recently felt the motivation and inspiration to write something. I really wanted to write a short story and had the itch, but had no story in mind, no plot, nor any inspiration. Then, I started binge watching South Park (yes, you read that correctly!) from its beginning when I found myself with a (very) little extra time on my hands, and, drawing inspiration from the show's pilot episode, decided I wanted to do something with aliens and abductions, a theme I've  been a fan of and found fascinating since childhood, but have never written about in any literary capacity.

Several hours later and many (miles? light-years? gigabytes?) of whatever measurement one might use to find out how far down the Reddit hole one has gone, and I found myself on the r/aliens Subreddit. Having read numerous stories about encounters and abductions (and, consequently losing some hours of sleep) I eventually came across the painting someone had done above.  I don't know why or how, but somehow I knew that the girl in the painting's name was Maisy.

Walking my dog, Hermione, with my younger brother a day later, I bounced ideas off of him, and eventually came up with a rough outline of events in my head for 5 chapters. He nodded contemplatively, saying this was a story he liked the idea of, and would even be something he'd be interested in illustrating (He is an artist and did the cover art for Star Sharks​). We agreed we would write a graphic novel of it together. 

A week passed by, and here I am, three out of five chapters of prose complete, and my brother in the preliminary character design phase. I will hopefully finish writing the story within the week, and post it for you here. It is going to be titled "Visitors." I hope you'll read and enjoy it!

Thank you for reading, and, as always,

Yours in creative musings,

T.D. Smith