Begendings.

Guess what - I'm moving!  In fact, I've already moved. 

I'm talking about my writing space.  (There might be other types of moving in my future, but for now...)

...it's time for me to head in a different direction.  I've been struggling with Fancy Notion over these recent weeks - material has seemed just outside of my reach.  I've heard an insincerity in my voice.  My haphazard post about blogging actually started me thinking about: what am I doing here, really?  But most of all, I started to resent the time I spend searching my mind for interesting topics, because it has left me less time for the other writing that I'm doing, the creative, painstaking, for-publication kind that takes a shit-ton of practice and a great deal of time set aside for failure.

(Which I'm rocking at, by the way - the failure! Apparently this is normal for the new writer. Unless the Internet is just full of lies, which it simply cannot be.  Right???)

But, I don't totally want to leave. I enjoy writing for an "audience," as far-flung and mysterious as it may be.  And then I read this post by the lovely Alice Bradley,who blogs at Finslippy and Babble and is one of my favorite voices on the Internet, and - excuse my lame earnestness when I say this -  it inspired the hell out of me (to say nothing of her tremendous follow-up to that post).

So on October 1 I started a new website.  A real one, that I bought with cash money, and everything! Okay, okay, with credit... you got me. It's quite different from Fancy Notion - simultaneously more and less structured.  More structured in that it consists of a limited few "types" of posts that will all be creative writing based - think posting less for the relevance of the topic, but for the writing of it. Less structured in that it isn't a linear march through my life - what I'm dong now, and what I'm doing now, and what I'll be doing tomorrow. Of course, I will try to cover any big events that happen to pop up (see possible move, above) - but what I've learned here is that I can write such better stories when I have the luxury to properly mull over them first.  And there are a lot of scenes in my life that occurred way before there was ever Fancy Notion that I'd like to paint.  And I want the freedom to fiddle with fiction, without Oprah getting all James Frey-tastic on my ass someday. And there are already so many friend-blogs that I read and love, bloggers who write about the same events and puzzles and life oddities that I experience, but write them, well, better. (At least that's my opinion. You guys are a bunch of stinking geniuses.  Yes, you).

So...thank you for reading me here.  It's been more fun than I can tell you, really, so I won't try. I don't expect you all to like the new website - but if you'd care to join me there, I will be the first one jumping up and down to give you a hug when you walk in the door. Just don't bring me a plant, because I will kill it.  Bring vodka.

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