Recently I've begun writing... on my own accord. Poetry, short stories, now the blog where I can put up my personal stuff. I used to really hate writing of any kind, but Mrs. Smith changed all of that.

A dynamic English teacher, I owe Mrs. Smith a great deal. Not only do I appreciate writing more, I've found that writing is a great way to relieve stress and calm down, much the way music is. However, music is sort of limited in the way it produces a great deal of noise, and I can't go around at 11:30 at night banging out Scriabin or Rachmaninoff.

So yeah, I will probably end up posting a lot of my poetry and some of my stories up here. This is almost embarrasing, sharing my work, I feel as though it is all probly literary crap, but it works for me, and serves a good purpose. So what the hell, why not share, the worst I'll get is a few laughs thrown my way. It's not as though I have a major image to uphold, nor am I worrying about every trying to create some super-special one.

Some random thoughts to help me more or less before I bare some of my written work on the internet... even if this journal will probably only ever get a few random visitors.