I hope you’ve enjoyed The Ferris Wheel. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know.
Last year was a good year. The Ghost Writer: Rose’s Story was published. I do hope you’ve picked up copies of the published works.
More is coming. Fiction Outtakes: Bill Wynn The First Hundred is in progress as a collection. So too are the original Kitchen Stories. It’s too soon to put actual dates to their publication times, but tentatively it seems like a couple of months for the first one of them to appear.
Meanwhile, the Fiction Outtakes series continues and work on a new novel is in progress. Looks like very late this year or sometime early next year for that to appear.
I’m mostly staying away from politics lately. I have my opinions and believe I’ve made them pretty clear. Some opinions I keep stressing. For example, I do believe we’ve come to pure absurdity here in America. This is compounded by the fact that the media do not present the truth. Neither do the politicians on either side. All are concerned with using their rhetorical skills to distort any sense of truth. This is very disconcerting and it is dangerous to America. If there were anyone I’d suggest listening to these days, it would be Alan Dershowitz . He seems to have a balanced take on what’s going on and he presents its threat to our democracy.
That being said, I go back to what I used to tell my students when I was teaching which was not to believe anything I said just because I said it. I implored my students to find out for themselves and to do so by checking out all points of view, by doing honest research into any given topic. That extends to what anyone says. Honest and balanced research leads toward truth. Fifteen-second sound bites, thirty-second video commercials, and flash-in-the-pan Facebook postings and re-postings of obvious propaganda posing as honest reporting lead toward distortion of truth. Distortion of truth is a goal these days of many of our media outlets and politicians. Their purposes for doing this are clear: maintaining power bases, personal gain and keeping the status quo.
Another opinion I continually advance is that man is by nature selfish and greedy. It is man’s selfishness and greed, which is ultimately driven by fear and hubris, that cause our politicians and leaders (from the Hollywood elite who want to be referred to as “regular people” to the politicians to the billionaire media owners) to hold on so strongly to the status quo, to the false narratives they present for their own enrichment.
So we move on. Do send comments about the writing if you are so inclined. Thanks to you all for following here and Bill Wynn 164 will be posted shortly.
Peter
