One of my dreams to write a story that could be published one day. It will come to a surprise to many of you, however it will continue with the We are Going South and Believing in Change mantras. I have read Dickens, Tolstoy etc and find their writing just amazing. I will not copy their work but will find inspiration from them, especially their sentence structure. My blog will be a great opportunity as a place to practice my writing and get some feedback from many of you.

I plan on using our times and our current situation as the setting. I want to expose the issues of greed, wealth, pride and power as the motivations behind the characters involved. Yes, I know it has been done but I think the current economy has been like no other. Why, because this time the most powerful have fallen. Unlike the Great Gatsby where the rich continue to press down the poor, we have the Madoff’s the world and CEO’s and bonus checks that now the country has scorned from the President down. People no longer strive to be the big fat cat. Again why, because they have all they need. That is why we are in a “recession”. People have realized that they have every gadget, a nice home, food and water. So the story will need to launch from before the recession and then into an era of contentment. “I am content with what I have” is the theme and it will derail the economy which has a GDP where 70% is in consumer spending. There is no more of the “Next big thing” We don’t need it.