TheDarkKnight: Blog

Found on Robert Cargill's thread on Bluesky

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing

Thanks to everyone (and there was a heck of a lot of you) who gave me the answer to this mystery. It showed up as a Random story on the homepage.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reading.

Since I returned to SOL after being gone for over a decade, I've been watching my statistics once a week or so, just a touch of writer ego, I guess.

This week, I noticed something strange. One of my stories that I posted 18(!) years ago, had the most views last week, by far, four times as many as any others. It's not even one of my most popular, 13th or something.

What happened? Not complaining, just curious.

BTW, the story is "Pete, Repeat, and Snookie"

Several years ago, I started using another id, my alter ego if you will. I had forgotten why I felt I needed it until I went back last week and reread the two stories I posted there. Ah, the mystery is solved. They are very extreme, not like most of my other stories. Call it an experimental lab. Anyway, if you are interested in taking a glimpse into the dark side of TheDarkKnight, check out Ken Usemi. Corny name, I know.

So, now that I have confessed, if I say ten Hail Marys and let Father Mike blow me, can I still get into heaven?

Thanks to everyone who responded to my original post. You gave me a lot to consider. I was about to delete it, based on the 40-some-odd stories I've successfully posted here over the years without using it, but some of the comments you sent have convinced me to try the Pro version, at least for awhile. It might make the third rewrite, the painful one where I search for all the little errors, a little easier.