I think I’ll begin writing in this blog with some regularity. I don’t know that I’ll ever gain any readership, and in fact I have no idea how one goes about gaining a readership, but I’ve resolved to proceed nonetheless.
This will be a blog about my attempts at writing. There are two major goals for this project. First, I’d like to “publish” things I actually write. I hereby resolve to publish my fiction writing on Sundays. For now, I’m not going to give myself a word count goal per week. The goal is just to write something. Any writing at all is an accomplishment for me right now, given the demands of my job: I’m usually too exhausted to eke out more than a few sentences. But writing in a public arena such as a blog will motivate me to get something done. At the very least I will be shamed if I fail to post fiction on a Sunday.
The second focus of the blog is to write about writing. Not only to write notes about my progess, but also to jot down ideas, thoughts about the writing process, and about the sorts of things I want to write. These sorts of posts will be as-they-come, but I will aim at posting at least on Thursdays for this sort of thing.
I’ve been working on a story of indefinite length, and figured I’d start this blog after I had a large body of work, refining it in rough chunks week-by-week for publication on Sundays. See, if I had, say, four posts worth of work, then I could refine post one while writing post five throughout the week. I figured my week would involve editing with fresh writing on the weekends.
As it stands, I’ve got lots of ideas, plus about one and a half posts worth of writing (well, a little more than that, given that I’m working on two stories at once, probably a bad idea). I realised that I’m waiting and not doing. The thing needs doing.
In my next post, I’ll introduce the sort of fiction I’m interested in writing and also detail some of my ideas about the art.
