An old friend found me on FaceBook about 7-8 months’ ago. And yes, I know this isn’t a phenomenon for you reading this post, because most of us are all aware of the fact that old friends, relatives, and school chums around the globe are searching everyday for their long losts on FaceBook in hopes that their long losts won’t be lost anymore. FaceBook has miraculously interfaced and reintroduced people. And for me, it feels like the past, the present and the future are all meeting colliding in one place in time… (queue science fiction music, please) …and it’s kinda’ quantum physics-tricky.
Stay with me here a minute, I’m getting to my phenomenon point, I swear. I’m Neve Black the erotic writer, but there’s a lot of people from my past that don’t know that –Neve Black is my porn writing pen name, so for someone from my past to find me here in the present, with a different name, living in a different city and oh, that very minor detail that I twirl the pen of porn, well…that’s some fancy foot work on their his part, don’t ya’ think? I do. What’s trickier is this person is interested in merging our past with a future… and, I have to admit, I’ve always been rather fascinated with quantum physics.
What’s your past/present/future collision story?
Neve Black
p.s. the u2 video above has absolutely nothing to do with my post above, but it’s a welcomed favorite and Bono helped calm me down this morning while I navigated through snow piles and sketchy ice patches on my way to school earlier today. Enjoy!
I’ve not entered the facebook world - mainly because I would rather not have more than one “face” if I were to do that (and I just don’t feel like explaining) - plus, friends (real ones, hahaha) tell me it’s a giant time-suck. And I’ve already got enough of those.
In addition to that, I know only too well how past/present/future can collide and cause all sorts of difficulties (though incredibly rich and delicious) - and one of those is plenty for me, for now.
‘Tis all I’ll divulge.
Hi Robin,
Originally, I had issues with FB, but now…I think it’s fun and I don’t spend too much time dinking around in there. I do like to read up on what some folks are doing, to include many of our fellow erotic writers. It’s a simple way to stay connected, but trust me, I’ve had my hand burned by FB too. I suppose like everything else in life too much is just too much.
Ooooh, it sounds like you have a rather interesting past/present/future story to tell…but I respect your need for privacy and the “tis all I’ll divulge”. Hmmm…yet another reason an annual erotic writers convention is necessary.
Thanks for sharing.
Neve,
I knows all about those facebook re-connects.
AND I am also quite fascinated with the particle or wave thang!
March is just around the corner, grrrrrrrrrl. and just maybe it won’t be an artic tundra around these here parts by then.
With just a little help from the universe
Wow, Neve, that’s fascinating that someone found you through all of that! I, too, live a double life with a pen name - which I find currently necessary but rather tedious at times. I’m looking forward to some day in the future when I can be one with myself! Meanwhile, my other-self has a facebook but my Marina-self does not!
I understand completely what Robin is saying: “I know only too well how past/present/future can collide and cause all sorts of difficulties (though incredibly rich and delicious)…” Have been there and done that!! Very nice that this blast from your past is accepting and is interested in a future! We should all be so lucky!
I don’t have a FB account, but I have made recent connections with a couple of old friends through other resources online. Both went to high school in Idaho with me. One lives in Hawaii, the other in England. Seems none of stayed on the farm (That’s the proverbial farm; none of us were farmers.)
Hey D,
Yes, you and I will always have…facebook in our book of shared memories, won’t we? And that actually turned out to be a good thing, me thinks. Thank the universe that March will be here soon…and that means the film festival, visitors from the past and hopefully warmer temperatures.
Hi Marina,
Long time no talkeee. How are you? I hope you’re finding a warm place to snuggle up during these bitter cold months.
It’s truly a personal choice to have a pen name or not. I respect each writers decision and the multitude of reasons why one chooses a pen name, or chooses not to have a pen name. I like to keep things separate and I don’t think it’s because I’m living a double life. In my head, when I sit down, it’s the persona of Neve that’s doing the writing - although I know she’s me. And I hear what you’re saying, and have also read in other posts that both you and Robin don’t feel that you can comfortably share with everyone in your real name world about your pen name writing. Yes, so having a pen name does have that advantage too. I suppose in that respect the pen name acts like a veil, but not in a bad way. I think it protects those people from themselves, because really, what is it about erotica, or sex that people don’t like? The answer is, fear. My own family is ultra-conservative and I don’t hide the fact that I write, but I also don’t throw it in their faces either - so the pen name for me is a compromise. Like me, you know who you are and who is doing the writing regardless of how you salutate the story - so really that’s all that really matters.
Interesting notes on both you and Robin’s past, present and future collision stories. Something tells me neither story had a very happy ending…oh, wait, let me take that back. Maybe both stories really did have a “happy endings” and that somehow interrupted the present and future. Hmmmm….now I’m really curious.
Thanks for sharing. Great hearing from you. Have you thought about F-stop?
Hi Craig,
Yeah, you and I have talked about FB before and I know you haven’t jumped on that band wagon. It took me awhile and I use the system sparingly. It can be time waster, and I don’t have time to waste. I think FB is really an interesting phenomenon. If you read between the lines of both Marina and Robin’s posts below, you’ll see there’s this huge dynamic going on out there; it’s taken on a force onto itself, which I’m not sure anyone could have predicted - and sometimes that force is good and sometimes too good, which can be bad. I’ve had a not so good experience with FB and it really pissed me off, but the reconnection I’m speaking about in this post is actually a good thing, exciting actually.
How cool that you were able to connect with old friends recently. Isn’t it a weird feeling? To me when all past, present and future collide it really gives meaning to the term, time is a continium. So, do you have travel plans to England and…damn this would be a great time to go to Hawaii?
As always, thank you for your input. I appreciate your comments.
from the past, in the present, hopefully into the future - and for now, I’m quite happy
Hi Robin,
I can tell that you’re very happy and that’s wonderful.