Hello, Dear Reader!

And by dear reader I don't mean the general, anonymous audience of several different types of eyeballs perusing this page, but you specifically. If you are reading this, you are probably the only person on earth to read this blog. Congratulations. You, like this blog, are unique.

I'm going to pretend you're not one of my very bored friends who already knows the raison-d'etre for this blog. I'll start from square one.

So square one: I'm going to graduate school for creative writing this fall. Yes, I'm very excited about it.

(Before square one, so square negative one): i don't really do blogs. A stupid statement since I'm obviously doing one right now. But I figure that blogging about my novel on a daily basis will help keep me on track with writing, and maybe even help me untwist some of the knots that this impossible task is. A Gordion knot (do you know the story of Alexander and the Gordion knot? off topic--)


So really, I hope you Mr. or Ms or Mrs X, don't take offense when I say that this blog is primarily a way of thinking out loud.

It is, also, obviously, a way to procrastinate.

And also, I kind of procrastinated horribly with writing this novel and so have to do an outrageous amount in order to have enough material once the school year begins. How long did I procrastinate? Let's say about two years, more or less. I had two years to write this novel and I started about a month before the school year begins.

So now...we're at square the square root of 23 over the average of thoughts per second (4.12932038098 about sorry I'm bad at math)...here at square 4. whatever rounded down or up. I hope you understand the situation. I'm writing a novel, a lot of words per day, very quickly, and I'm starting a blog to track my progress and help me through this mess. To follow in the next post: observations I have about writing a novel so far!! Stay 'posted!' (get it?)