Note To Self: work on your titling.

The original title I came up with for this blog was "Composition Notebook no. 109087256334 or something like that, referencing the number of notebooks and journals I've filled, or tried to fill, over the years with stories, ideas and other writing attempts. This is just another and I really hope I can hold it together for this one.

I know this is probably a very counterproductive entry in the way of actually writing creatively and getting back into the swing of story writing but I feel weird without an introduction of some sort. You can expect to read a lot of different things in this blog, but none or very little will have to do with my life. If they do at all, they will be in regards to the writing and, maybe some day, the publishing process. I'll add a sprinkling of quotes from other authors here and there. Mostly though, this will be all about free writes, character development and other writing exercises I decide to do. From time to time there might be entries written in the first person about someones day. I can assure you that whoever that someone is, it's not me. It's a fictional character, or someone whose head I'm trying to get into because I think I can use pieces of them for a fictional character. "meme's" and surveys as well are those of the characters and not my own. if this attempt is to be at all successful, it can't be about who I am, but about who I can come up with. I'll try to use the labels and what not to make that clearer.

There was a time in my life when I had a very creative circle of friends that were interested in writing and whom I could turn to to write with and to bounce ideas off of so to better my writing. They'd sit with a red pen in hand and tear my papers word by word to pieces so that when all was said and done, I could possibly have a masterpiece in my hands if I only made the effort to put the pieces back together again in a better way. I still have a lot of very creative friends, but the dynamic has changed and it's resulted in my writing skills laying dormant for many years now....so bear with me. I'm sorry if what I have to say right now is cheesy or trite. This isn't about writing the great american novel so much as it is developing as a writer and finding my voice. and maybe some day, it will be about such a thing as the great american novel. I'm good with my writing just being for me right now.

So read...tell me what you like and don't. Help me become better at what I do..