Well, here I am with yet another blog. I hadn't really planned on it being this way, but in the words of Jayne, "What you plan and what takes places ain't ever exactly been similar."
I'm starting this blog as something a bit more writerly in focus. I have a couple other blogs, one strictly personal ramblings, and one in which I bash bad e-books with a couple of partners in crime but since I'm trying to work on that whole "career in writing" thing, I wanted something with perhaps less cussing and more about what I'm doing as a writer. I have been told I need "web-presence" and I cannot deny the logic.
The promised backstory is this... when I was in the fourth grade I wrote a story for a big creative writing project. It was a fantasy story, and while I remember precious few details of that fateful tale, I do recall that there was at one point an aerial battle between a pegasus and a griffin. During this epic conflict the pegasus kicked the griffin clean out of the air. My teacher at the time, one Mr. Bob Kepler, pulled me aside and said the story was so good that he really felt that if I didn't pursue a career in writing (something I clearly loved doing) that I would be doing to my life what the pegasus did to the griffin: kicking it to the ground. I loved him for saying that, and will always be grateful to him for it.
Unfortunately, I feel as though I've let him down a bit. While never really meaning to do so, I have in fact kicked that dream of being a writer to the curb. I have never not had some writing project to work on, but never really made a serious attempt at being successful.
Well that is behind me now. I am making a serious attempt.
Wherever you are, Mr. Kepler, be proud. I'm rescuing my griffin.
