Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Damn it, Jim, I'm a writer, not a blogger...

Hello, patient, [nonexistent] blog audience! I truly am horrible with this thing. I'm not sure why I have it up. As mentioned before, I prefer good old ink and paper when expressing myself (I even prefer to write drafts of my short stories and plays in Moleskines and other kinds of notebooks--thank God Almighty for beautiful, wonderful, though arguably overpriced Moleskines!), and would probably do well to just adapt old journal entries on theology and spirituality--of which I have more than plenty--into blog entries until I get used to writing here. I'm just not acclimated to it. But I don't reckon it's too fair to type out more entries about how hard it is for me to maintain a blog. I do want to get my thoughts and ideas out there so I can get feedback, and, as well, participate in larger conversations. Also, as an aspiring professional writer, I hope to hone my skills as a publishable wordsmith. Nothing's better for that than writing for other people instead of just writing for myself most of the time.

Anyways... If I do have any loyal readers out there, the only reason I can think of for your faithfulness is that you're imperturbably curious. Well, God bless you, nonetheless. I'll have something better for you soon. I just wrote this as sort of an exercise. Then again, that's what the last few entries have been...

Oi...