I hate the first post of a blog. It is almost always incessant prattle that no one really wants or needs to read. And as a writer, it is always the very hardest to create. Just like the first line of a book. It has to really say something in order to get the attention of the reader.
Did you ever see that movie Alex and Emma? It was somewhat forgettable, but there was one part that really stuck with me, where Alex is trying to write the first sentence of his book and he is completely blocked. He quotes the first line of Moby Dick, "Call me Ishmael" and explains that with such giants who have gone before ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" A Tale of Two Cities) he couldn't possibly manage to write a good first sentence with that sort of pressure.
That is what it is like to write the first post of a blog for me. I agonize over everything from the topic to the tone, all to put something down on the page that most visitors to the blog will never even read. Do you want the first post to explain who you are? The backstory of what has been going on up until this point? The reason you choose this very public forum for your expressions? Why you left blogging over a year ago and are just now returning? Why you are starting a new blog rather than just adding to the old one? The questions could go on and on...
......Well you see I wanted to......What's been going on is.........um.......I blog for a lot of reasons including..........oh..........well.....ok then.
Yah. I got nutthin.
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