First Blog Post - To Write! (From the Past)

-Please note that I started writing this blog before the New Years, and before I had my blog page prepared. Since then I have redesigned this "project", and will be starting it in earnest on January 10th, 2011-

This is a “writing blog”. That means that the principle purpose of this blog is for me to write. I like to write, or at least I consider myself someone who is fairly good at writing who can, in a good mood, really enjoy putting ideas on paper. So I would like to write.

The problem is, I rarely make time for myself to do any actual writing. And since most of my final semester in college is going to be nothing but writing, I feel as if I ought to set some time aside to write for leisure, or at least to practice my writing so it doesn’t become incredibly dull through the process of highly regulated writing.

So, for my new years resolution, here is what I am proposing to myself. Every day of the year for 2011, I will write a full page and post it on a blog. I will figure out some way to make people be able to read this blog. I might post it on Facebook, I will probably post it on at least one message board, and I will tell my friends that I chat with on AIM about it as often as I can.

The requirement for each blog post is that it must be at least one full page on Microsoft Word, and that it must be at least 300 words long, so as not to abuse a heavy use of spacing and headers to pad out a full page. A full page is required to ensure that I don’t abuse very small words.

This first page is not going to fall under these requirements, nor will any other page I post until New Years Day, when I WILL be posting at least once. If, for any reason, I miss a day, then as soon as I can start posting again, I will post twice per day until I have made up my missing days, but this will only occur when I have absolutely no method of accessing the internet, such as during power outages or during a lack of computer, and during those times I will at least try to write my posts out in advance on loose leaf and transcribe them, to preserve “the experience.”

I’ll be doing this until I’m finished with my thesis, which should be in late May. If I enjoy it, I might set myself a second deadline for later in the year.