What I learned today.
I don’t have an elaborate excuse for not having blogged in months and months and months. I’ve just been busy is all. Busy living, stressing, working, walking, teaching myself to write, etc.
But here’s what I finally let myself learn today:
Not every sentence needs to push a plot forward. That is total bullshit. Sometimes sentences are just poetry. Sometimes they’re a little path of breadcrumbs to another story.
YMMV.
I have things to do, paragraphs to lubricate 
What? They get creakier than hardwood floors!
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True enough. From the standpoint of aesthetics, the plot and story arc are, if not the least then certainly among the least significant elements—a bare frame over which to stretch the canvas of creative expression. It’s not the story but how it’s told that’s important, for the same plot can be manifest in myriad ways, from the simple to the sublime, with only the choice of expression differentiating.
When every line’s merely another row of bricks in the wall of plot, it seems to me one’s engaged in journalistic fact-building not storytelling. (Ignoring for the moment the apparently modern situation of journalism as storytelling.)
I’ll look forward to someday seeing your great work in print; do let us know when and where we may, yes?
In the meantime, see you on blip!