What Am I Looking At?

As much as I love cold starts, I can't help feel like this blog needs some introduction. Hello, my name is Greg, and I like to write. I really do. I just have trouble getting myself started. So I made this blog. The title, "Just Write, Greg!" is an instruction from me, to me. To write something. Anything. Every day. Possibly more than one time a day, too.

I've given myself too many distractions, too many excusies. Even as I write this, I'm having to power through a laggy interface on a 5 year old laptop, because I've got enough distractions on my other two computers to keep me from getting anything seriously done. But no more. I've gotten this introduction started. I am on a roll. I won't let anything

Damnit, even my phone conspires against me. Who is Miley09, and why should I be their Zune friend? But I'll get to that later.

So, now that I've told you why I haven't been writing, maybe I should tell you what it is that I want to do, now that I've succeeded in getting started. Y'see, I want to be a fiction writer. I enjoy creating worlds, and crafting stories. The bulk of my problem, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this, is that I lack the willpower to get my ideas down to paper, or whatever exactly a blog is made out of. (Also, my handwriting sucks, which is why I'm not actually using paper.) I also have an easily distractible mind, so that even if I do get started on something, I end up leaving it halfway finished. The shame in all of this comes from the fact that even my half-finished work is, from what I've been told, pretty good. I'm not arrogant enough to believe myself to be some sort of writing prodigy, but my family, and more emportantly every english teacher I've had through my bizarre educational carreer, tell me that what I write is great, and that they would like to hear more. This has ALWAYS dumbfounded me, because I never feel like I'm doing any real work in my writing. Evidently, the real work comes in the second half I never want to do.

Meanwhile, I have all these ideas flitting about my head, and I really do want to get them out of there. That's where "Just Write, Greg!" comes in. I'm going to write these ideas down, and put them somewhere so they can be seen. Or, more importantly, so I can see them, and they will stare back at me, half done, begging me, "Please, Greg, don't leave us in blogger-limbo! Set us free so that we may be published and make dozens of dollars for you!"

This is not a diary (mostly). The entries you see here will be a collection of short stories, or possibly chapters for longer, overarching storylines. They will also be rather mixed up. Maybe if I get on a roll I will stay with a particular world for a while, but my intention now is to have different tales being told each time you look here. I'll link together the ones that are connected for easier reading, but you may see, for instance, a detective story followed by a zombie story followed by a sci-fi epic in three parts with random bits of Lovecraft-ian bizarrity thrown in for good measure. Or you could see something completely different. On some days I may simply babble about nothing in particular. You may also see an announcement if something that I write ends up in a published form, because, despite my low self-esteem, or perhaps because of it, I do like to brag when I do something semi-exceptional.

Okay, that's all from me for now. The next thing you read here should be from a completely different character.


EDIT: Oh, and maybe a few video game reviews. I figure I may try my hand at those as well. Not a lot, but if something strikes me as interesting, and I feel I can put out a different point of view for it, I'll give it a shot.

Nah, nevermind. If I wanna do that, I'll keep my opinions on my "blog" blog.