Scribble Soup

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I’ve been meaning to write more every day for a while now. Not weeks. Not months. I’m talking a year or two. I have some great excuses—don’t we all—not enough time, don’t know what I want to write about, do I have something I want to share because heaven knows there’s a lot of content in the world wide universe that is cluttering up the place.

But I have a novel—or two—I would like to revisit. I know I have to get in there and do some major rewriting and I feel like the training wheels fell off the bike.

Sure, I’ve been writing news stories and video scripts for decades, but I find writing facts is so different from creating fiction. And I want to do more of both. So I needed to put the training wheels back on—or leave them off—and just start peddling, er, writing.

Then I decided my website needed a major overhaul. My first and second website iterations, which I coded myself, were classwork projects while I earned certificates in print and web design. They were fine learning projects and the second version looked really nice and had a lot of me in it. But the website started to look dated and contained graphic designs that were no longer a part of my professional aspirations or work.

After a few failed attempts at recoding my old site from scratch, and joining a class to learn Word Press, I decided I needed a professional. This isn’t a plug for Word Press but everyone talks about how easy it is to use and so I engaged my web hosting company and began searching Word Press templates for one that would fit.

The template I finally settled on would have a home page, a videos page for potential clients to view the videos I produced, and of course an about me page so potential clients could check out my skills and resume. Then I saw how many templates had a blog page. At first I thought no, I don’t need a blog. Just home page, videos, about me.

Then, I reconsidered. Hmm, I thought. That’s one way to get me writing. Put a blog page on my website and I will have to figure out what I want to say and make the time to say it. I also thought I could post some of my photos, since I consider myself a pretty good amateur photographer with an eye for composition and lighting.

Wow, a place where I could refine my craft as a writer, share my thoughts, perhaps some of my fiction, and my photos. A blog. Brilliant.

Day One. Here it is. Scribble Soup. That was easy enough.

March 29, 2016

 

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