Bloggers Unite!

Hey this is just a quick little post about a cool website I found for all you blog writers/readers out there.  It’s condron.us.  For anyone interested in reading some new blogs, go there and it will bring up a random blog that has been submitted every 6 seconds, just long enough to know if you’re interested.  And of course, for bloggers, you can submit your blog as many times as you like and it will get moved back to the top of the rotation.  This is all free, but you can also pay a 2 dollar weekly subscription fee that automatically moves your blog to the top every time it hits the 1000 spot.  Plus, if you ever mention condron.us in a post (admittedly, like I’m doing now) it’s more likely to come up in there search.  So if you’re trying to get new readers, or are just interested in finding some new reading material, check it out.

http://www.condron.us/

Bone of Contention!

Hey everybody, the first post of my collaborative blog with my roommate, Bone of Contention, is up!  The blog has us choosing (or being forced to take) a side of a debate and argue it.  It should be fun, and hopefully harmless.  The first one is Mac vs. PC, so check it out!

The budding author…not

I wish I could be a writer.  I love to read, and my head is always bristling with new ideas for short stories or books.  Currently I’ve got this epic space opera brewing in my head that I would just love to get onto paper (or my computer anyways).  And the great thing is the tools for this kind of thing are readily available.  Alas, it just isn’t meant to be.

On several occasions, I’ve acted on my impulses to write and have sat down at the computer and just started typing.  I’ve even gotten a good way into a few of my stories.  Then I hit a colossal case of writers block.  So I figure, “hey, I’ll just go back and read what I’ve got and maybe it’ll come to me.”  But then I go back and read what I’ve written, and think to myself, “This is crap!”  It just seems like no matter how great of an idea I have in my head, it just never transfers to paper like I imagine it.  And that’s not my only problem.  I’ve come to find that I come up with amazing climaxes and plot twists for my stories, but I’m utterly incapable of filling in the spots in between.  It’s only getting worse as I get older.  My imagination is slowly but surely getting less and less, well, imaginative.  I’m studying to become an engineer.  I have a very logical mind, and the creative part is slacking.  But I suppose I will never give up on my attempts.  I’m sure my computer will see many freshly started novels popping up for a very long time.

Comments (or writing tips) are greatly appreciated as always!