The End (Not Really).

For almost four years, Someplace Else Instead has been where I posted my poetry since my sophomore year of high school.  While it still remains a place where I can reflect on my growth as both a person and a creative writer, I have decided to bid SEI farewell.

I began writing poetry before I created Secret Door of Magical Child-- a blog I created, where I could post my poetry, so I would have a place to keep them and not lose them, especially if there was no paper around or my laptop crashed (both have been known to happen).  Its title came from two of my favorite things at the time I created the blog: a song by Evanescence titled "Secret Door", and a poem called "Magical Child" by Michael Jackson.  It was about a year after that, that I changed its name to Someplace Else Instead.  At first, I changed it for Halloween, with plans to change the title back later on, but I loved the new title so much, I stuck with it.

I decided that a new home was in order for my creative writings.  Poetry has been my favorite of creative writings, and since I began writing poetry (in late 2010), I've written a little over 600 poems up to this day.  Although SEI had nowhere near that many poems, I first started writing them on paper and hid them.  I ended up throwing them away in the past when it seemed that my entire world was crashing down in late 2011.  However, I realized that this hobby was much more than little tributes to my favorite musician-- it was the outlet of my emotions, and I was falling in love with it.  I was falling in love with the ways I could say how I felt, and how beautifully I could do so.  Many times, after writing a certain poem, I would go back and read it, wondering if it was really me who wrote what I did.  I realized I could write everything from miniature love stories, to miniature nightmares.  Over time, everything I saw, heard, and felt, inspired a poetic thought, and it has not stopped since.

This blog is not going anywhere; it's staying right where it is.

But, with all of this being said, a new beginning is in the works.
  Yes, that's right: I am creating a new poetry blog, which is going to be titled The World In Me.

http://thisworldinme.blogspot.com/

Despite the URL saying "this", I promise it's "the" right blog.  ;)

I've always had the idea to create a second blog, but was never sure as to what I would say on it.  Then I figured, why just take that idea, and use it for another set of poetry?

I was always fascinated when I found that people from all over the world somehow got to this blog.  Whether it was friends from my poetry's original home (MJTP), or just someone who had managed to get here from some other place.  But, whoever is here and/or has been here, reading my poetry, thank you.

For now, I will put Someplace Else Instead on the shelf, and begin to write this next book.

~LJ

6 February 2016