So. Here we go again.

This is perhaps my sixth attempt at starting a blog. This, much like Yoga and regular exercise, was usually one of those things that seemed like a good idea and lasted a week at most. Four of these, going back several years, were about writing. If writing wasn't difficult enough, then writing about writing certainly was. Then there were two others, diaries of sorts, based on all the "hilarious" crap that went on at work. But that wasn't for me. Why bring that kind of crap home with you? So this is going to be about writing, books, and the written word in general. At some point, when I finally finish a manuscript, there will be some shameless self promotion as well. Given my productivity, prepare for a blitz sometime next decade. It will probably be for a short story.

I think one of the reasons I never kept up with a writing blog was the fear that I had nothing new to say. There are dozens of talented literary professionals blogging about the craft, and probably 1,000 times that made up of fellow hopefuls and wannabes. But then again, what in the writing world is new? What hasn't been done? Truth be told, nearly everything has been. Be it literary fiction or genre fiction, stories are told and re-told. Some in unique, interesting ways. Some such blatant rip offs the offending author should be dragged into a back alley and flogged with a typewriter. So why shouldn't ideas, trials, and inspiration be blogged and re-blogged? Anything to help keep the dream alive for fellow hopefuls deserves to be read and should be written. Passing the torch, as it were, from one wannabe novelist to the next.