Author's Note: Newer Beginnings.

I haven't been posting here very often, as anyone who glances casually can see. There are multiple reasons for this: business is one, writer's block is another, and laziness plays a huge factor in it, obviously. It's not like I haven't written anything, though... when I started this, I figured I'd upload writing of any sort here, but sometimes it turns out, when I finish writing something, I look at it and say... "Where do I want to put this?" And, as it turns out, this blog is not always one of them, to my surprise. So, projects I wrote for class haven't been up here as much as I thought they would. Sometimes they're because I don't like them enough, I guess. Other times, they just feel somehow inappropriate.

Take, for example, the last story I wrote that I was proud of. I submitted it to a journal, and though I don't expect it to be accepted, it would feel odd posting it here. Which leads me to a realization: why would anyone publish anything I write when it's already here online for free? When I started this, I was thinking about going the self-publishing route, but looking at the pros-and-cons, I think I'd rather go the older-fashioned way. Which means, then, that while I might post an occasional poem or such here, I shouldn't upload something if I'm going to try and get it in print somewhere else.

This means an "official" hiatus as I figure out just what I want to start posting here, then. I don't want to get rid of the blog; nor will I delete older posts. When I post something older, however much I hate it later, I usually don't get rid of it: I like looking at old, rejected scraps. It shows some modicum of growth, and can be mildly interesting. Somewhat like Chris Tolkien's Histories of Middle Earth books.

In any event, Diversity of Lions will continue somehow, in some form... even if it becomes a more traditional, diary-type blog. (Well, I hope not. My life is pretty uninteresting.)

Until then:
Glory be to the Father,
to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost,
As it was in the beginning,
is now,
and ever shall be,
World Without End.
Amen.
--F. Rojas