Post #1 - an explanation

So you’re reading my blog.  I guess it’s not against the rules for my first post to be about the genesis of this blog, itself (especially since what I did write on the topic was too long for the “about” section – waste not, want not; I’ll say in this instance, though in writing it’s not always the best policy).  I’ve been a writer for as long as I care to think back, though not much of mine has been officially published.  

Recently, I realized that my writing has really started to wane, in ratio to the rest of my life, and also that I have some completely finished works that for some reason, I am just too scared to submit to publishers.  At the moment, I’m going to run on two hypotheses: (1) that my writing may increase if I feel there’s somewhere it needs to be on somewhat regular intervals and (2) that if I get enough positive feedback from more than just the regulars (thanks, Mom; I love you!) some of the time, that maybe I’ll finally submit something for genuine publishing.

So then, this is the place where everything that's made it past rough draft will go (I refuse to torture you all with junk just to serve hypothesis 1; we have hypothesis 2 to keep in mind, after all), when I don't have a good reason to fear publishing it "officially", but have that fear nonetheless.  There are no other restrictions to the nature of the writings I will be posting here, but most of them will most likely end up falling into one of two camps: philosophical musings (by which I do not mean musings that are philosophical – though these will pop up from time to time, so much as I mean musings on Philosophy – metaphysics, cognitive science, etc.) and a lot of first teases of short stories.  Some of the latter will come from completely finished stories, but most from seeds that haven't fully sprout, yet (but, again, I promise no rough draft type muck).

I hope you find this entertaining, and I hope I find this cathartic and inspiring.

Breaking my own rough draft rule right off the bat, here’s a poem I wrote to go along with the name of the blog (as an alternative “about”, but which, though I have re-worked many times, I’m not fully satisfied with – though it does capture the blog’s intent):

A Pen in the Moonlight

When my pen stares up at the moonlight

It sees the inspiration for its words

But if I never let my pages see the daylight

Will those words ever really be found?