Greetings Guests,

This year I have set forth on the noble and trying journey to become a writer. This blog is the chronicles of that journey. If you find yourself walking this same path or are just curious what it is like, you will find here the insights, information, and lessons that I have found most useful to me on this endeavor.

I am not a writer by trade or education. In fact, I have devoted the last ten years of my life to the sciences with the purposeful exclusion of anything reminding me of my old English classes. My Achilles heel in this is that I love a good story. Recently, I reached a point where I could not contain the writer in me any longer.

This brings me to the spin on my blog – I am approaching the entire field of creative writing from the ground up. Just as a scientist scrutinizes every finding and flaw in an experiment to master the underlying facts, so I am pulling apart the details of what it means to write and to write well.

Having already started this journey, I have realized it can be a productive, though lonely, one. So, I trudged along for a while, amassing supplies, and then I realized there are other people walking right along side of me. The purpose, then, of this blog is threefold: to chronicle my journey to becoming a writer, to share what I find most useful on this journey, and to chat with whoever is walking with me.

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For my first on topic blog post, I will cover: Comma uses and misuses.

Please feel free to comment below. 1) Are you a new writer, too? How is your journey going?

2) Have you been writing for a while? Please, share any lessons or advice you have.



Thanks for reading!