The Beginning

Yep, here we go. 

To point out the obvious, I'm starting my first blog. Ever. Not because I think I have anything important to say, but just so that I can say that I'm doing something somewhat productive. I don't do very many productive things in my life, the way it is now, so why not try. Plus, I've been drinking a wine spritzer thing, and starting a blog seemed like a pretty good idea.

I never took a writing or English course in college (unless you count that fucking FIS class we were all subjected to first year), but I've always enjoyed writing. In middle school and high school, I wrote all the time. I had so many spiral notebooks and composition notebooks, and cute little stationary-like notebooks that I wrote in. It was mostly melodramatic, emo (before "emo" was a thing) poetry about unrequited love. One time I tried to write a novel about these kids that lived in 1949. It was called "Walden's Creek"---not that I was even aware of Thoreau's Walden at that point---and it was basically about my friends at the time, except we lived out in the country in the year 1949. I think I wrote like 2 or 3 chapters and never finished. That has always been a big problem for me, finishing things. Like the screenplay I'm currently writing, but haven't actually worked on for the past couple of months. I keep telling myself that I have writer's block, but I think it's actually just procrastination. When you get to college though, you have to finish things. My writing wasn't that great in college. Maybe I should have taken a writing course. But I was pretty focused on doing just enough to get by, and only taking the courses I needed to in order to graduate. I believe it was my senior year, in music history, when I wrote a paper about the Beatles, and when I got the paper back, my professor had written that it was too conversational. But hey dude, that's just how I write. And come on, it was a paper on the Beatles, how formal does it really need to be? 

So anyway, that was just a little insight into my writing skillz, just so that you're informed. I'd like to be able to tell you what to expect from this blog as time goes on, but I really have no idea. I think this will mostly be a place for me to vent about things that happen in my life, and put some of the thoughts and ideas that I have down into words. Sounds good to me, how about you?