Lost in Fallen Leaves

I've been thinking about starting a blog, so now thanks to the encouragement of a couple different folks, here I am.

Right now, I figure I'll follow part of the plan that Ed (one of the aforementioned folks) set for himself with his blog (listed somewhere in the frame whenever I figure out how to do that), so this is a forum for me to help keep myself on track with writing projects. And there are a few of them out there:

• a dissertation, which has become a heavy, dark cloud


• poetry - it took a while, but I outgrew the Angstful Teenager tone and have written some stuff I actually like and don't mind inflicting on people


• short stories - I like genre fiction, especially SFF and mysteries, and I figure that I can write something that's at least as good as what I enjoy and better than some of the dreck that I've read (and I'm hoping these aren't famous last words!)


• movie treatments - See the comment with 'short stories' but replace 'genre fiction' with 'movies' and 'read' with 'seen'


• novels - So far, these are ideas. Maybe they can be more.


• creative non-fiction - Oh, the projects I've started and not finished... How embarassing!


• reviews - The other member of the aforementioned "couple of folks" (whom I'll refer to as J until I get permission to use a name or come up with an appropriately funny nickname, although that seems a little silly since all of what... three people might be reading this!) almost made me cry by giving me a wonderful compliment related to movies and critiques, so maybe the blog will also be a place to write about movies and pop culture, too, because I definitely have opinions.

Other than saying that, for right now, I'd rather not talk about the dissertation, this is a good place to stop for this, my very first blog post.