Yep...I started another one

Call me a glutton.

This marks the fourth or fifth time I have actually sat down and started a blog.  I always sit down with the best of intentions.  I am going to blog about my experiences, or talk about my hobbies or one of..well four or five different things.  After about a year of writing I tend to get discouraged because ...well I just do.

Anyway, once that happens the posts get farther and farther apart until I just...Stop.  But here is the thing...while I am writing, my mind is clearer.  I sleep better.  I work better.  My mind isn't as cluttered.

So here is the deal.  I am going to write and not just that, I am going to try and write about 3-5 times per week.  I just finished a class that basically said that the more you write, the better you write.  Seems kind of logical.  I mean if you play basketball every day, you might never get to be as good as Michael Jordan - I mean initial talent does have something to do with it - but you will get to be the best player that YOU can be.

What will I write about?  I am not sure I really know.  That class I just mentioned had a component called "Free Writing".  Basically sitting down with a pretty broad topic and regurgitating everything about that topic.  Spelling, punctuation, coherence never really was important, it was about getting your thoughts out of your head and onto the screen/paper so that you could do something with them.  Thoughts that are locked in your head are easily forgotten, things you actually have written down somewhere have a tendency to stick around.    So I figure this blog will be a lot like that.  I will pick a topic - a TV show I just watched, a book I read, class for that day - and I will spend 10-15 minutes writing about it.

Now don't get me wrong - this free flow writing was never my strong point.  Spelling, punctuation and actual coherence were just too important to me to make it work.  So I will have a general theme, I will go back over it and clean up any glaring mistakes, I will spend about as much time cleaning up what I am writing as I do actually writing it.

First up..an introduction