WHY?

WHY?

So, I decided to start this blog.  And of course, I’m wondering “Why?”  Why start a silly old blog?  In all honesty, I’ve always thought that blogs were cheesy, corny, dorky, etc.  I’ve never really seen the point in doing something like this, nor really felt like anyone would read it.  Yet, here I am.

I guess there are a few things that inspired me.  First, I realized that writing is COOL.  Well, I always knew it was cool.  I tear up novels like nobody’s business, indicating a clear adoration for the written word.  Yet, I think it was reading some other people’s “stuff” (aka written work) that got me going and thinking about ME doing some pleasure writing.

A few months ago my boyfriend shared with me a short story he wrote, entitle “The Man with the Hat.”  I don’t want to ruin it, but it was detective-esque short story, and it actually succeeded in ending in a cliffhanger fashion, leaving the reader wondering what may have happened.   And it was SO GOOD.  The dialogue was amazing, and I was just so IMPRESSED with how he captured the quintessential “detective talk” that I so loved when watching Law and Order and reading James Patterson.  And reading his story just made me tingle a bit.

Another thing that got me going was during one of my classes in school.  For my Severe Reading and Writing Disorders class, we had to write 5-paragraph essays (7^th grader style yo!) at the beginning of the semester.  Now, I bet your thinking that I’m going to go all into how writing the essay inspired me, and blah blah blah.  But no, it was editing someone ELSE’S writing that actually inspired me.  One of my classmates wrote a funny, witty, charming essay on “the irony of her likes and dislikes”  (e.g., I love working out, but I hate running; I love cooking shows, but I hate cooking).  She was just so good at capturing that “ironic feel,” and I thought it was just amazing.  Especially in comparison to my ever-so sappy essay on running the Disney Marathon...what a boring, predictable narrative, seriously!

Now, do I propose to write amazing dialogue, or show my witty, spunky side with this blog?  Nah, I’m not ready to give myself that much credit yet.  Sure, it would be cool…but I’m not going to count on it.  The idea here, for me, is not to show off my writing skills (which are pretty mediocre, to be frank) or to share anything of particular importance….I guess the idea is to just create some art, have fun with words, and enjoy creating the words, instead of just sucking them in, as my ravenous-reader self does.  

And yes, I plan on using some super cool pictures and video and fonts and links and ugly florescent colors along the way.  How could I not?

So that is why I am starting this blog…in a nutshell.  ‘Til next time…