Hi.

After dealing with some rather inferior blog sites for the last couple weeks, I've finally arrived here. We'll see how it works out. This blog is intended to serve mainly as a place to exercise my writing skills (which are dubious at best,) in accordance with my latest NY's resolution. Said resolution being to write for at least an hour each day. (Note bien, would be critics, not all of my daily writings will be blog posts; rather few of them will, I'm thinking.)

While I'm here I would also like to network with other writers, and maybe even pick the brains of a few who do their thing professionally for advice and such. Hopefully there still exist such creatures...

Anyway. About me. The riveting part? There is none. I'm a community college student in a small town in southwest Missouri. I have no major, except hopefully journalism, at a later time.

Ugh.

It's snowy here, if anyone's interested in the weather in SW Mo. This has kept children out of school on what was supposed to be the first day of the semester. And there was much rejoicing, believe you me.

For myself, when I haven't been playing chauffeur for my little sister, I've been really into Naomi Klein's No Logo. Finally, yes, I know. I'm about halfway through, and I would highly recommend it. It's so refreshing to see what may be considered a screed by some to be so well and thoroughly researched.

So that's my intro. I'll try to post fairly often. Various meditations, as well as perhaps some pieces from my fiction exercises (mostly from Brian Kiteley's excellent 3 A.M Epiphany, a book all struggling writers should look into.)