The Plan

Plan:

I was reading the newspaper the other day--a rare occasion, let me tell you--and I came to the conclusion (again) that little random columns are really fun. And I want to write one. Here's the problem, and where the plan comes in: to write a column, one has to be hired by a newspaper. To be hired, one has to have experience, experience that I do not have. That's where the blog comes in. Because basically (and yes, I just started a sentence with the word 'because') that's all a column is, just cooler because it is in a newspaper. So here's the plan:

This blog is going to be practice. I'm going to pretend that I'm a super cool columnist and this is my column. Every week, I'm going to write something. My life isn't so epically boring that absolutely nothing happens, so I can't pretend there will be nothing for me to write about. This is the plan. Write a weekly blog, and see what happens.

The things about successful columns is they either have content that everyone enjoys or the author has such a great style that it is impossible not to be entertained while reading their writing. My hope is that I can do both. Not likely, but we'll see what happens. I've slowly been working myself into different sorts of writing styles because I was starting to get bored by my own work (not good), so maybe I'll even try different writing styles in this weekly blog of mine. Here's hoping I can actually make something work in a way that people may actually want to read what I'm writing. Because (starting with it again--get over it) how cool would it be if I could graduate, get a job in publishing, spend a few years doing that (with a little bit of marriage in between), and then go to writing full time once I start having kids (which is a scary thought, and provides yet another reason for an interjected parenthetical statement, even though they are starting to become quite numerous).

So this is my plan. Wish me luck!