Dear Reader,
Welcome to Runicfire!
You are no doubt wondering where on Earth you are, and who
the blazes this bespectacled, bearded man pictured on the right sidebar happens
to be. Worry not. You will have your answers soon, but be warned: you may get a
tale out of the bargain.
My name is Aaron Miner. Aaron M. Miner, actually, and I’ll be damned if Blogger ever lets me
display my middle initial. This is my blog. A long time ago, in 2007 or thereabouts,
I thought it a fine idea to purchase a domain name and start a weblog. I lived
in Vermont at the time. Vermont is called the Green Mountain State for good
reason: its forests are verdant, its winters full of white powder, its autumns
alive with color, and it is a beautiful place to live.
It can also be dead boring. So starting a blog for fun,
whose only readers proved to be a handful of friends and the spiders in my
bathroom, seemed like as good a pastime as any.
Time passed. I moved back to California, returned to school,
and Runicfire fell into disarray. I never did discover how three googley-eyed
arachnids acquired a better broadband connection than the one I had.1
But now, in the winter of 2013, a whole two months after the
End of the World, I have returned to the blogosphere.
I am a changed man. In the intervening years, I’ve gone from
a listless youngster with big dreams to a writer about to self-publish his
first novel, a student on his final year of his bachelor’s, a producer/director
with an animated music video under his belt, and an entrepreneur who founded a
one-man animation company. Though I have much more work to do, the present is
exciting, and the future is more fascinating than ever.
So, what is Runicfire?
I have thoughts. They’re a noisy bunch, and they keep
hammering on the inside of my skull, screaming for me to let them out.
Sometimes they escape through my mouth, but their best avenue to freedom is
through my fingers. Frequently, they come out as stories. Other times, they
demand a different shape. And that is what this blog is for.
Runicfire is a place for my thoughts on my craft, my
profession, my life and my other passions. One day I may discuss my creative
process, another I might analyze the story of a movie I watched. I might share
some scrap of knowledge I obtained about the business of animation, or an
oddity I discovered in my daily life. Sometimes I’ll comment on politics or
current events, and other times I shall wax poetic over a new scientific
discovery. And, every so often, I will share works-in-progress, or even short
stories of mine in search of a home.
You could say this blog is a sounding board for me. I prefer
to think of it differently: I am bound in a nutshell, and inside it lies
infinite space. On the near shore of that sea of infinity lies a tiny port
town, bustling with trade and tales of the beyond.
This is that port town. This is Runicfire. Welcome! And
please—have a look around.
1. I’m not sure, but I swear it has something to
do with their affinity for webs.
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