Lizard Lair Media Ratings: the Dinosaur Stomp of ApprovalThe Lizard Lair as portal to “What If…?”
OK, so here’s the thing. I have many interests that grab my attention, and I have been quandrified about how to maintain focus here at this blog. If I write about everything, I’m writing about nothing. If you’re a fan of sf/fantasy or of my own writing in particular, you may be interested in reading my blog for that reason alone. But I know my posts will be a better body of work, and prospective readers more likely to stick around, if this corner of the interwebs is a little more thematically bounded.
With that in mind, then, my overarching theme here at the Lizard Lair, from here on out, is going to be three-fold.
One leg of that structure is, to share with readers about my writing, my books, and closely related creative interests like world and game design, and imaginative media that influences, inspires, or entertains me.
The second leg will be rooted in the general category of “what if…?” That is to say, things that make me pause and ask “what implication does this have for how we live, now or in the future?” Or, “what would it be like if we could do X?” This ties in closely with the speculative aspect of the speculative fiction I write. I figure if something catches my attention for this sort of reason, I’d like to explore it here.
The third leg of my Newly Bounded Thematic Interests is what I think of as “currents of change.” We’re living in a time fraught with change at a rate that continues to accelerate. Much of what we are experiencing right now presages much greater change to come. I want to examine such things more closely in this blog.
I figure this thematic revamp will be the best way to incorporate some eclectica here in a way that makes sense and hangs together as a whole.
So there you have it. A troica of ideas. Or is it a three-legged theme monster? Hence harder to tip over…
Of course I reserve the right to just go off in some random direction if I really feel moved to do so, but from here on out my goal is to stay centered on the things outlined above. I’m parsing out my interests, brain, and writing time right now, so elsewhere I will address things that don’t map well to the new (or better defined) “what if” theme of the Lizard Lair[1].
Alrighty, then. Let the posting mania begin!
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1. See, for instance, my political blog Cogitations, which focuses on the nexus between fear, security, and power in our contemporary society.
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