Since I was fifteen, perhaps even fourteen, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I've pursued this goal in various ways at various times - sometimes devoutly, sometimes drowning in my own procrastination - though the truth is that life choices I've made have often been the toughest obstacles to overcome in pursuing my passion.
In the past few years, I've been trying to rectify this glaring problem in my life. I joined a wonderful writers' group made up of fantastic writers, and I've slowly been growing as a wordsmith. Of course, I've also had to start my graduate problem (teaching requirement) and the act of teaching high school English while taking grad classes burns me out.
Therefore, in addition to using my free time to continue work on my novel(s), I thought it time to take up blogging again. Not as a option for further procrastination, but because I feel like I am trying to wrap my head around the world and I never know what I truly think or believe until I write it down. I need to figure it out, and perhaps it'll give me some good fodder for my stories.
I wrote a blog for a long time when I was in the Army and ultimately deleted it. (A stupid choice on my part.) Let's see what I have to say now, so many years later.
-SJD