Yeah...so.
Isn't that how all great literary endeavors begin? Not to be pretentious, or anything.
I've tried to do diaries and journals before, but blogs are a new thing for me. Hopefully I'll remain committed to this one. The thought that I might have an audience will hopefully keep me moving. I like writing to an audience. Even as a little kid I always imagined my writing being read by some future historian perusing the few surviving documents from the Apocalypse. Despite this, it rarely occurred to me that I would be long dead before anyone would care about what I wrote. I suppose I thought that I'd be able to look down from Heaven (for when you are five there is no Hell) and peer over the shoulder of my great-great-grandchild, laughing as he made terrible errors interpreting my chicken scratch.
I'm trying to write a short story for my school's literary magazine, and I'm having a really hard time. My idea, I believe, is good, but I can't get the words right. I can get them out, just not right. I've been experimenting with a lot of ideas, and some have turned out OK, some not so much. The joys of being a writer are not these. My favorite part of writing, actually, is making up stuff and then going back later and rereading it. Is that egotistical? I dunno.
I suppose that this would be a good time to mention that I write. Clearly, I do, since you're reading this someone must have written it (Unless I'm Cleverbot in disguise or something), but I write a lot of fiction. Not as much as some, of course, but still plenty. I write scifi, mostly, and I've taken a few cracks at "literature." Maybe I'll post some of that stuff later on, see where it gets me. That will ruin any chances of getting it published though, so you'll probably only see the stuff I write "on the side." I don't write professionally, but some of the stuff I make I take more seriously than others. Some of it is private and I doubt I will ever share it.
So, that's the introduction to Kfroguar's blog. I hope you liked it, and let's hope together that this will not be the only post I ever submit.
Isn't that how all great literary endeavors begin? Not to be pretentious, or anything.
I've tried to do diaries and journals before, but blogs are a new thing for me. Hopefully I'll remain committed to this one. The thought that I might have an audience will hopefully keep me moving. I like writing to an audience. Even as a little kid I always imagined my writing being read by some future historian perusing the few surviving documents from the Apocalypse. Despite this, it rarely occurred to me that I would be long dead before anyone would care about what I wrote. I suppose I thought that I'd be able to look down from Heaven (for when you are five there is no Hell) and peer over the shoulder of my great-great-grandchild, laughing as he made terrible errors interpreting my chicken scratch.
I'm trying to write a short story for my school's literary magazine, and I'm having a really hard time. My idea, I believe, is good, but I can't get the words right. I can get them out, just not right. I've been experimenting with a lot of ideas, and some have turned out OK, some not so much. The joys of being a writer are not these. My favorite part of writing, actually, is making up stuff and then going back later and rereading it. Is that egotistical? I dunno.
I suppose that this would be a good time to mention that I write. Clearly, I do, since you're reading this someone must have written it (Unless I'm Cleverbot in disguise or something), but I write a lot of fiction. Not as much as some, of course, but still plenty. I write scifi, mostly, and I've taken a few cracks at "literature." Maybe I'll post some of that stuff later on, see where it gets me. That will ruin any chances of getting it published though, so you'll probably only see the stuff I write "on the side." I don't write professionally, but some of the stuff I make I take more seriously than others. Some of it is private and I doubt I will ever share it.
So, that's the introduction to Kfroguar's blog. I hope you liked it, and let's hope together that this will not be the only post I ever submit.
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