Starting Over...

It's funny, I had a moment, more than a moment, a few moments, of thinking about how I was going to do this all differently now.

Starting over on a new site so totally different feel. More serious pieces. Only polished and well thought out posts. No more rambling. Fiction that's been proofed BEFORE I post it.

The sort of thing I would do every new semester in school. THIS time it would be different. I would go to class. I would be more social. I would do all of my work in a timely manner instead of in the class the period before.

The sort of thing I do every Fall now. THIS time I will eat better and move more. I will finally (and simultaneously) become the weight I have always wanted to be and also not let my weight drive my behavior. New year, new me!

Except it never was a new me. I always brought the old me to the new school semester. The new year. The new blog site.

So yeah...

It's going to be the same as always. Posts that read like diary entries. Posts about politics. Posts about what is bouncing around in my ADD brain. And fiction.

And, sorry, Skip, poetry when the urge hits me.

All of it unproofed and error filled.

I am grateful beyond belief at the number of you who signed up to get this in your inbox. I always joke that I have three readers, but more than three of you signed up so I'm feeling a little fat and sassy right now. Now, I know, a lot of you will just delete the post without ever reading it, or will SWEAR you will read it later when you are less busy. Or in the new year when you will totally be on top of your inbox and never let things slide... New year, new you!

But still. I'm grateful.

I've said it before, writers just want to be read. I want you to read what I put out in the world. I want you to tell me what you think about it. And, yeah, sometimes I want you to feel something about what I've written. Especially the fiction. If I can generate an emotion from you with something I've written it's pretty intoxicating. And since I quit drinking it's all I've got left...

Until the end of the year I'll be double posting most things to Blogger, the completionist in me demands that be finished out. And I have one more chapter in the Books story to post there that I am not posting here. At least not until/unless I figure out how to migrate all of that writing over here easily.

So here we go. New space, old face. I have ten more fiction pieces to write by the 31st. And however many more nonfiction I get done. I also know there is another piece (at least one) about the leave or don't leave battle going on in my head. I keep making a decision and then getting new information that makes me change my mind. ADD struggle is real, y'all.

Okay, well, welcome to the new page. Isn't it so pretty? Let's see what we make of it.