First lines are supposed to be key to connecting to the reader, hooking a publisher and making yourself feel like a thoroughly fabulous writer. So, carrying on that proud tradition…
Call me Ishmael.
There. Glad to have got that one out of the way. Getting back to business, I'd like to point out that the general content of this journal will be fragments of my ongoing projects, research links, rambling about writing, video posts about writing and pictures. Possibly pictures of writing.
There will be real life content here and there, particularly when I take a trip and feel the need to foist my local treasures on you. Hopefully 2010 will be the year that The Ten Tours commences (details on that in due course).
The attempt to make this first post sound less like a first post has failed miserably.
A beginning should mirror an ending.
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
Note: First line belongs to Moby Dick and the last line belongs to The Catcher in the Rye. Although I suppose it's not a last line anymore. Ha! Great literary principles thwarted again!
Call me Ishmael.
There. Glad to have got that one out of the way. Getting back to business, I'd like to point out that the general content of this journal will be fragments of my ongoing projects, research links, rambling about writing, video posts about writing and pictures. Possibly pictures of writing.
There will be real life content here and there, particularly when I take a trip and feel the need to foist my local treasures on you. Hopefully 2010 will be the year that The Ten Tours commences (details on that in due course).
The attempt to make this first post sound less like a first post has failed miserably.
A beginning should mirror an ending.
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
Note: First line belongs to Moby Dick and the last line belongs to The Catcher in the Rye. Although I suppose it's not a last line anymore. Ha! Great literary principles thwarted again!
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Date: 2009-08-10 06:52 pm (UTC)All of which is to say I am excited to see this journal grow! (And... could that have sounded any dorkier if I'd tried?)
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Date: 2009-08-10 08:44 pm (UTC)(And... could that have sounded any dorkier if I'd tried?)
It totally could have, that was just sweet, not dorky! And I have had a nosy about the paid DW time and intend to give you and me a little treat on payday this month!
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Date: 2009-08-11 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-11 06:16 pm (UTC):D <--- no where is ever too cool for smileys.
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Date: 2009-08-11 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-11 07:03 pm (UTC)I am going to start on our mood theme ASAP. I'll use all stock stuff so it'll be fairly bright and totally neutral. Maybe it'll be finished by the 25th (payday!), you never know.
Weeeeee!