It's Been Lovely.

 Hello!

ProvidenceMine here!

Wow!  

I'm finally finished with the story!  I never thought that would happen, but I am so jazzed that I did it!

I know that I told you all that I have a very important announcement concerning the future of this blog, and I know that I've kept you all hanging for a while, so here it goes.

I'm finished with this blog.

While I am keeping this blog online, and while I plan to continue the maintenance of this blog, I'm finished with writing on this blog.

I have to tell you the truth.   

It has been a struggle to get an audience for this blog.   While I never expected to go viral, I always thought that I would have a small yet steady following.  Alas, that did not happen.   After a while, quite frankly, I was lucky if I got ten visitors in a day.   

Rarely were there comments, rarely was there any kind of feedback.

I can't say that it wasn't fun, because it was fun.   

At least, in the beginning it was fun.

The last story was a real struggle for me, as you can see just how long it took for me to write the damn thing.   I thought I had another story on the way, but that story never really materialized for me.

It was time.

I will keep the blog open.  Maybe I will have another story to tell, though I think that this is highly unlikely.   I might write another oped piece, though I think that this is highly unlikely as well.

I have to be frankly honest with you.   I haven't read any fan fiction for quite some time, nor do I have any inkling to anymore.  Most of the Star Trek fan fiction writers whose work I liked no longer write, but I don't even know if I would read anything new from them, to be honest with you.   Star Trek fan fiction has been nothing more than a distant interest to me in the past few years, and I guess there is something rather pathetic about writing stories based on other people's creations. 

Another thing I have to admit is that I have been pretty fed up with the over abundance of Sci-Fi that has been out there-in movies, tv, everywhere.   When I was growing up, science fiction was not very common at all, and it held a mystery to it that it simply doesn't have anymore.   What's more, most of the science fiction out there is pretty crappy.  No one is making anything of the quality of tv like the original Lathe of Heaven or the film Altered States anymore.

The books don't even seem to be good anymore.  The days of Ray Bradbury and Octavia E Butler are long gone. 

Who do we have now to look forward to, Voxday? 

Lately, I have been sticking to reading dramatic works, like Reflections in a Golden Eye.

Adult fare.

Struggling to finish this story was a sign from up above for me.  

It was time to move on...

...so, that is what I am doing now.

There is a company that makes books out of blogs, so that is what I am going to do.   I will make enough books for myself and my immediate family for keepsakes.

I have posted a couple of my stories on a website called Archive of Our Own.  I don't know if I will get much readership on that site either, but that's neither here nor there for me anymore.

So, this is goodbye. 

I want to thank those of you who took the time to visit my site.   I really appreciate it.

It's been lovely.

But, I feel that I've stayed at the party for way too long.

Again...  

Thank You.

Thank you for spending the time with me on my fanciful journeys and my rants.

Take care, my Dear Readers...

...and Godspeed to you all.

Your Friend, hopefully,

ProvidenceMine.

Goodbye.

Written October 13th 2020.

:D