Write What You Know.

So what do I know? It's all about finding the right words. Finding something to say, knowing how to put it. Why start a blog? Everyone else has one? Why join the herd? Why not?

I want this blog to be about the world as seen not on TV. I'm not sure how to do that, or exactly what that means, but why not give something a maxim of which to adhere, then send it on its way and see what develops.

The way I think I'll utilize this whole intertube phenom will be via reader feedback. Each blog post will be a short story, something simple, a writing exercise of sorts. The comment section can be for discussion, likes and dislikes, and author comment that might help the reader understand the intent (explaining certain choices in diction and structure that might seem out of place or incorrect). I will post the stories with the title "Fiction:____" - the underscored space being the title of the piece. If it is an observation not lending itself to fiction, I will post it as "Non-Sequitor:____", giving a title to bring the editorial some cohesion.

They say to write what you know, but what is writing? This is writing. You know this. I know this. So what can I say, what fable can I imagine might make sense of all these words collected and arranged? Is it entertainment, an expression of one person's ego, or a greater truth?

I read in a preface to a Vonnegut book that he felt that fiction was more true than any journal or newspaper article about an event. I find this true as well, the way that white light is broken into separate colors through a prism. The prismatic effect of fiction on the human condition illuminates those strange intricacies that help define what it is to be human. The need for irony to crack apart an ideology that has false pretenses. The way a romance unfolds in all its tragic beauty to enlighten us on love and loss.

These are the truths of fiction, the facts of writing, that open up a world of possiblilities, and a blog of a thousand entries.

Hope you enjoy.