Come As You Are: Season 2 Episode 23

Happy Saturday, Lovecats!

Are you out protesting No King’s Day or are you home, resisting and revolting in your own special way, like I am? 😜 I would have actually loved to have gone to my local protest but I didn’t want to go alone, even thought it would have been a lovely place to meet lovely people, I’m quite sure of it, I still didn’t want to go alone. So there’s that.

Although, I hadn’t planned on this episode being political (I mean, it’s barely hitting the surface, to be honest), but it’s hard not to talk about something that is affecting us all and has had my full attention for almost a week now. Because the majority of the madness is and has been taking place in my home town of LA, mostly in a very VERY small square mile in downtown, LA, where I spent a lot of time in my twenties, and is still just over an hour away from where I am now, I was glued to my screens, just like I was during the fires or any other major (and possibly catastrophic) event that happens there. Most of my family is all still there, not anywhere close to downtown LA, so no-one is truly affected by it first-hand.

Moving on…

Have you had a chance to read this week’s chapter yet?

I’m writing this book in real time, one chapter a week. Aside from an outline, I truly have nothing else saved, nor do I have future chapters lined up and ready to post. I gave myself this challenge to write one chapter a week, and I’m loving it (and I hope you are too). Eventually, when it’s complete, I’ll publish it… and I often wonder if once I’m finished, I’ll read through it in its entirety and change anything? I’m not sure how that will work, but I’m truly enjoying the process of sharing it in real time, here. Also, and just to clarify (even though I do have a disclaimer as a footnote on each chapter), this is a work of fiction, however, it is based on true events and true details and a true timeline (it’s currently in 2006), in some way or another. All names have been changed and this way, you (or “the reader”) will never really know which parts actually happened and which might have been slightly enhanced, possibly embellished, completely fabricated or stayed exactly the same 😉. And maybe this is how all fiction writers create their stories as well? Of that, I am not sure, but since this is my first try at fiction, I’m also pulling from my life’s actual, lived experiences, making it an extremely fun (but also sometimes emotional) journey.

And then I was wondering about…

Possibly the idea of these Come as You Are video episodes breaking the 4th wall, in a way, and wondering if I should not really continue them, even though I enjoy doing them so much. I don’t get a lot of feedback from them, and so I wonder if it borders “too authentic” in a way that people (the audience) doesn’t really like. I speak more on this in the video, but I think (and I could be wrong) that sometimes a viewer creates their own backstory about a person when they see them in photos or in some way that feels illusive, I guess, and allows them to create their own story about them and ultimately decide if they “like them” or not, and being authentic in a way, kills that mystery… as much as people say they want authenticity, I don’t think they do, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on that as well!

Have a wonderful weekend, Lovecats!

xoxo …love, Maegan 💋