Well, I did it. I installed WordPress. Installed is an overstatement though. WP came with my hosting platform. All I did was hit basically an “add WP” button. Then I spend the last hour, or more, looking for a cool header image. Unfortunately, the few fetal ideas I had for a first post have left, while I played around with options and layouts.
I’m glad I went with WP instead of Tumblr, even though Tumblr would have been a lot faster to just start typing. I should not poop on it too much, since that is what my cuter-half is using. I do plan on posting thoughts, maybe short stories, and with any luck, each post will include the old odd sensei quote with the old rules. No dead white guys.
I want to give a shout out to the writers that I’ve recently been reading. First, to N. K. Jemisin. It’s her book The Fifth Season and all it’s complications that gave me courage. I know it sounds naive, but I thought worlds that complex take lifetimes to build. She did it in a much shorter time, I think the first book was written in a year or two, and while holding down a day job. If she can build a world, people, place, terminology in just a few years… Well, I better get started.
Second, I’m working through Lucky, by Alice Sebold. My “Girl Called Jim” is a walk through a pretty park in comparison to Lucky, but I think it’s not the comparisons we need so much as just more perspectives. I’m hoping I have a useful perspective. Also, if she can write that down, and put it out there, then… Well I better get started.
A lot of us better get started.
Anyway, that’s enough to supplant the default Hello World. Welcome to my new little writing home. Considering how often I’ve moved, I think I can honestly say I know quite a lot about what defines a home.
“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
~N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
Here I am – all ready to stalk you!
HAHAHA I’m so happy you are the first commentor, or is it commentator! That will keep me motivated to write.