Writing

I really enjoy writing. I guess my style would fall into science fiction pretty well, but I think I fall into more old school SF and not the contemporary stuff. Well, whatever right? The point is that this year I've completed some work and brushed it up a bit and I'm going to showcase it in a limited fashion this December.

I like writing a blog, but blogging is honking easy. You just write off the cuff and you really can't write anything wrong. Trousers! See, that declaration seems to fit into this mode pretty well, but can you just imagine if all of a sudden, during the council scene in Fellowship of the Rings, Gimli were to shout out "Trousers!" at Boromir? It just wouldn't fit. Agent Smith, I mean Elrond, would just shake his head and the Hobbits would start looking around for their scripts and Gandalf would just sit there and cry.

There's a challenge to writing a story, and it not being a whole bucket of suck. Who am I to say whether or not my writing is any good, I don't know, but I will say that it is at least unique. I don't rip off anyone else and call it a remake or a tribute (cough Hollywood), it's my stuff and I enjoy writing it, and I hope someone eventually enjoys reading it.

So here's the deal, every Friday in December, I'm going to post the first 500 words of one of my short stories. I won't be a jerk and cut it off in the middle of a sentence, but I'm not going to post any story in its entirety yet. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet with this stuff, whether it's submit it to short story contests, or maybe even approach a publisher. To be honest, I don't want to even think about publishing until I work out my literary muscles a bit more and have a bit more stuff finished. Still working on improving here.

Keep an eye out for my fiction coming soon. Oh, and please feel free to comment. I'm always looking for input.