Beginnings
Note: I've moved my blog to my own web site - the new address is:
www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/
Comments can only be left at the new location.
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This is something I have wanted to do for some time now. Years ago, when I published my first web site, I wanted to simply post some of my writings on my site. But I procrastinated (one of my gifts) and then a few years later blogging became popular. Now even my wife Emily has a blog, so I decided that it was time to start my own.
My friends know me as a musician, but as a young boy long before music affected my life the first occupation I seriously considered was that of an author. I was a voracious reader - I read constantly, first books by authors like Mark Twain, Jack London and Madeleine L'Engle, then later writers like Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Isaac Asimov. I thoroughly enjoyed those books, losing myself in the stories I read, which I'm sure was a way of escaping an uncomfortable home life. In fourth grade, after learning that Mark Twain was Samuel Clemens' pen name, I invented a pen name for myself and hand-wrote a short story on lined paper, stapled together with a construction paper cover, the title written out with crayons. This blog looks a bit more presentable than that handmade novel, but I think that this is really just a continuation of that desire to create, which I believe is in all of us. And that's not to say that I have any special talent as a writer - this is just something that I have wanted to do.
www.nonaverage.net/insomanywords/
Comments can only be left at the new location.
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This is something I have wanted to do for some time now. Years ago, when I published my first web site, I wanted to simply post some of my writings on my site. But I procrastinated (one of my gifts) and then a few years later blogging became popular. Now even my wife Emily has a blog, so I decided that it was time to start my own.
My friends know me as a musician, but as a young boy long before music affected my life the first occupation I seriously considered was that of an author. I was a voracious reader - I read constantly, first books by authors like Mark Twain, Jack London and Madeleine L'Engle, then later writers like Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Isaac Asimov. I thoroughly enjoyed those books, losing myself in the stories I read, which I'm sure was a way of escaping an uncomfortable home life. In fourth grade, after learning that Mark Twain was Samuel Clemens' pen name, I invented a pen name for myself and hand-wrote a short story on lined paper, stapled together with a construction paper cover, the title written out with crayons. This blog looks a bit more presentable than that handmade novel, but I think that this is really just a continuation of that desire to create, which I believe is in all of us. And that's not to say that I have any special talent as a writer - this is just something that I have wanted to do.
posted by Ruben at
8:21 PM
