Welcome, I suppose

Hello and welcome to the introduction to my creative writing blog. Hm, that seems a bit unwieldy and fairly repetitive actually. Well, in any case, I truly do welcome you to this blog. Whether you're a teacher, fellow student, or me from an alternate Earth who somehow found his way into our internet, welcome! Unless you're the third one, then I have to absorb you for your power. The process is... unpleasant. But for the rest of you I assure you, there will be no horrifying magical processes! Just terrible, terrible, terrible writing.

Now, I'm still getting used to this blight of a word processor here on blogger, so excuse me if anything becomes randomly italicized or if the indents don't show up. But it seems simple enough, so who knows, maybe I'll figure this thing out soon enough. In any event though, this week is the first week of the semester. I'm supposed to do 3 or 5 paragraphs per week, on the readings and such. This week, the syllabus specifically says "blog introduction" so that's what I'm doing.

However, in order to cover my bases, I figure I should briefly cover Goldberg's Intro to Obsessions. Since this place allows for videos, I figure I'll post some kind of intro. I'll probably be doing this a lot, mostly for fun and partly to show what kind of person I am. But mostly the fun thing.

The Goldberg post, which I'll never NOT be able to think of as being written by a barely literate former WCW world champion as seen in the above video (if this damnable blog works as I demand it to), is written to my tastes and easy enough to digest. A guide to writing, I would HOPE that it would be easy to get into! It was smart, something I don't see often enough these days.

Writing Exercise number 15: What animal are you?

I am the Scorpion. I am hidden, in the shade. I have small claws, indicating a higher level of poison. I will not sting, unless provoked. I am November, in the stars themselves I am the most powerful in all of November. I do not eat the car. I am a Scorpion. It is silly to assume I ate a car.

That is my first blog. I don't know what I have comments set to, or how to change any of that, so it might be set to require my moderation to change them. If that is the case, I will fix it as soon as I learn how to. In the mean time, I have to go to bed so I can do incredible amounts of work tomorrow. Something about pulling a tree out of a lake with my bare hands, I don't know.