Although I don’t have a story to start with, as of yet, I figured I should put something up here so people wouldn’t be staring at a blank page. So here I am, writing my first post.

As I said in the “About Me” section (or, if I didn’t, I meant to!) I’ve done blogging before. But this is meant to be a creative outlet for me - a place where I can “hone my skills”, as it were. A blog is a blog is a blog - which is usually a place to rant and talk and yammer on about things that don’t really matter to anyone but those closest to me.

This is different.

I will not be doing that here.

Every now and then, I plan to post interesting tidbits and juicy information I come across that can help me become a better writer. They will be in this section (”On Writing” - named after one of my favorite authors’ books. I’ll let you figure that one out.) - and this post is going to end with a few such tidbits.

But for the most part, you will see me posting short pieces on this site. Most will be for practice only. I welcome - and appreciate - any constructive criticism you may wish to leave behind. Note: I said constructive. If it’s not constructive, it’s gone.

Other than that, I’ll go ahead and post my “juicy tidbit” right here: the Internet Writing Workshop. This is a list that’s run by Penn State, and it’s got some goodies on it. I’m thinking of joining the list - but for now, I’m going to use some of the writing exercises they have posted to get me warmed up. I’m going to keep looking for more “juice” that’ll help me. Who knows, maybe it’ll help someone else too.