The Blue Honor Vlog #57

December 18, 2020 By Captain Maiel Leave a Comment

Welcome back for another installment of The Blue Honor Vlog. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube. As a subscriber, you’ll get episodes of Shagbottom Theater, updates from the blog, and watch the process of making book trailers. And! You’ll be first in line to see it all. Once a video is ready, it’s uploaded, and you don’t have to wait for it to come out on the blog or even in the newsletter. Let’s get started!

This month, I’ll answer the reader question: what was (is) your favorite age?

Choosing when was your favorite age is a nostalgic trip, so it is perfect for this time of year. I often find myself looking back in the late fall/early winter. That’s not always good for depression and anxiety, and that may be one of the reasons some struggle during the season. Looking back can be littered with holes that send your right down another dark time. They can seem bright and shiny, but pinning too much for days gone by can lead to other consuming feelings.

I’ve had to learn to stay upbeat in the face of a world that has made just surviving a bleak prospect. Thus, looking back at my favorite age, you’ll hear me couch my ideas about it in what I believe are the best terms to consider it in. I don’t pine for it. Instead, enjoying the memory of the feeling I had back then allows me to feel that way again. I think that’s a much better way to approach it. It may seem semantical, but it’s really not.

Find out on the video, what my favorite age was and why it remains so to this day….

Other Episodes From 2020:

Blue Honor Vlog Archive

(Scroll below the december video for the links to the episodes for the year).

Prior to January 2018
Episodes from 2018
Episodes from 2019

About Captain Maiel

Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, K has enjoyed more than twenty years professionally writing. K attended Morrisville State College, majoring in Biology, and then continued with English and History at the University at Albany, where she gained her Bachelor’s Degree. While attending UA, K interned with the 13th Moon Feminist Literary Magazine, bridging her interests in social movements and art. Topics of K's writing often include gender and racial disparities, and trauma. In 2014, K graduated from Empire State College (SUNY) with a Masters in Liberal Studies: screenwriting (Film Studies), the politics of film, and adaptations. During her gradute work, K was the recipient of the Foner Fellowship in Arts and Social Justice, a full scholarship.
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Published novels by K include the Civil War drama Blue Honor, the Second World War spy thriller OP-DEC:Operation Deceit, and the controversial dark fantasy, paranormal series The Trailokya Trilogy. In addition to writing novels, K does screenwriting: 8 Days in Ireland and the adaptations of her current novels. A sequel to her second novel, OP-DEC, is in the research phase, while the screen adaptation is being considered for production by film companies.
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In 2015, K. Williams became an official member of International Thriller Writers, but her greatest accomplishment thus far was becoming a mother in 2017. K continues to produce commentary and art pieces on The Blue Honor Blog, publishing twice weekly. A devoted dog mom, K created Shagbottom Theater in which her dogs star as well known literary and stage personas. K is also a visual artist, producing the ZoDuck Cartoon, painting and sketching--digitally or traditionally, as well as an accomplished Photographer. Click here to see more! Whether it's cooking, IVF and Parenting, learning a foreign language, history or dogs, you'll find something to enjoy and for which to come back.
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Excerpts of K's unedited, rough drafts and other scraps of writing can be found at: KWilliamsAuthor on deviantArt.com. You can also sample her books on Wattpad.