Story 0.52 alpha

It was a dark and stormy afternoon; or so they say. I didn't believe them and I wasn't paying attention. They never identified themselves, so really, what credibility do they have? For that matter, what credibility do I have? You already know I made a statement based on unreliable witnesses and a confessed lack of attention on my part. But perhaps that's the reason. I admitted my fault. There is a little credibility to be had from that.

Well, it was afternoon and the weather doesn't really play into our story so I'll continue, if I may. I sat at the comput to type. I was going to type. Yup, that's what I was going to do. I was going to type. I was going to write a story. Yup, type a story up on the computer. That was the goal. The goal... Well, not quite a goal, as I didn't have a deadline, but that was my purpose. It's good to have a purpose. It's better to have a story.

Searching for a story in my head I had to ask myself why I was writing. Good question. Should I write about that? No, no... I was going to write a story, not a diary. Story... story, story... I guess I was writing to exercise my creativity. I wanted to write a story to prove to myself I still could. I hadn't written a piece of fiction like this since my resume... uhh... since college.

My eventual goal is to write a screenplay. Actually, I have a few story ideas but nothing too solid. I have three story lines in my head. One is more a piece of fan fiction. The other two are a bit more original. At this moment, I don't want to write those. It's not their time.

I actually write all the time, but usually I'm writing code. I'm a programmer, and that's what they do so I like to fit in. Problem is code doesn't tell a good story. It's mostly a lot of repetition and choices and repetition and is quite hard on the reader. There is only so much emotion you can get out of { } ( ) ; . And what would a code story look like?

There once was a variable named instance. instance was a very lonely variable as it was utilized to implement the singleton pattern.
   @see getInstance
   @ref Design Patterns

See? You need to be a programmer to even understand that, and the humor is lost on most programmers because it isn't written in binary. I want this to be human readable (as opposed to programmer readable?) and since the true geek programmer of today would insist on using a unicode representation of the characters, the binary version would certainly cause bandwith issues.

So here I am, still desireing to write a story. I'm not there yet. I'll have to try again soon or else the appeal of writing jokes in binary might overcome me, even using unicode...