<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Mythic Bios]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://matthewkirshenblatt.ca]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[matthewkirshenblatt]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://matthewkirshenblatt.ca/author/matthewkirshenblatt/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Going Deeper Into Myth, Farewell For&nbsp;Now]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>A long time ago now, as I always like to say, Mythic Bios started out as a series of private notebooks where I wrote down story sketches and some short stories as well. So I hope you will forgive the following hyperbole and metaphors as I give you some news.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the Mythic Bios Blog for over a year now. It started from a great pit in my life and it&#8217;s kept me sane in a sea of chaos for about that same amount of time. I knew when I took on work at G33kPr0n and, to some extent, Sequart before it that I would have some challenges on my hands in writing for all three of them. At one point, I even toyed with the idea of cutting down my posts on Mythic Bios from two a week to one.</p>
<p>But now the insanity is different, and I have to do something different, at least for the time being.</p>
<p>I find that for the first time in over a year, I am going to be taking a break from Mythic Bios, to go back to my Mythic Bios. There is a story that I am writing right now that people are depending on. If it was just the other magazines and Mythic Bios, I could handle that but this story requires much of my attention.</p>
<p>So what is happening is that, with my special golden pen that I rarely use, that was in fact a graduation present for my Master&#8217;s Convocation, I am writing out this story by hand in the last Mythic Bios notebook that I have, until now, neglected for the computer screen. In order to accomplish my goal, I have gone back to the basics: to the very beginning.</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t just that, of course. Life has been happening with me at a very accelerated rate compared to the slow molasses of earlier times and while this story is my top priority&#8211;with my <em>Dark Crystal</em> story following right after it&#8211;I find that right now I need to write less about life and actually start living some of it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to be completely gone. In this day and age it is simply impossible for me not to be entirely on the Internet. I will be continuing to write a few G33kPr0n articles and an article that I am really proud of is going to be published on Sequart in an instalment of three parts separated over three weeks. I may even take some time to do a quick update and let all of you know about my article.</p>
<p>But here are the facts. I&#8217;ve been really late making posts on here for the past few weeks. I mean, this in itself is already a weekend post and I&#8217;m not entirely sure how many of you are going to see this. I&#8217;ve learned a lot through this Blog and the challenges I&#8217;ve posed myself. I even made a great many friends and shown many of my old friends and contacts just what it is I can do beyond merely talking about my stories and my writing. I intend to continue to do so and make posts far more eloquent than the one that preceded this.</p>
<p>It pains me, and I am not doing this lightly, but I have priorities and hopefully when the first priority is finished I will have something to be proud of, and something to tell all of you. In the meantime, you will have plenty of reading material to tide you over here. I have no illusions that everyone has read <em>everything</em> on this Blog, and to those people who are my new readers, you will have a lot of entries to slog through &#8230; or anything that piques your interests. You can even look at my <a href="http://www.g33kpron.com/author/matthew/" target="_blank">G33kPr0n</a> and <a href="http://sequart.org/author/matthew-kirshenblatt/" target="_blank">Sequart</a> works, if you&#8217;d like.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad you have followed me this far. During the 50th Anniversary of <em>Doctor Who</em> I felt like I was The War Doctor, constantly in battle and hardly letting myself rest or even feeling the inclination to rest unless I had to pass out for a time.</p>
<p>But now, right now, I realize that the real war is already underway and unlike the wars of our world in which nobody wins, I hope that in this one there will only be one victor and that, in the end, you will be looking at him. I&#8217;d like to think that a good writer goes to war.</p>
<p>I will be back relatively soon, my friends. Take care. And, in the meantime, back to my notebook.</p>
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