Made this with tablet today. It's not much it's a start.

Welcome. I have been trying to decide how to fill this space for a few months now. I decided to do what I wanted here to begin with. I am going to document my move into attempting to become a serious writer. I want this to be a document of my failure or success.
As so much of this will be my day to day life I guess I should let you in on more of it. I am a Buddhist, a punk, and a writer. My beliefs in both politics and the Dharma are central to the message I am trying to communicate. I live in the wonderful Rust belt city of Milwaukee, WI.
I guess first and foremost I am looking to change the fundamental idea of writing. I feel there is too much focus on language, genre, and telling the deep moral of human behavior. Well that, and a wankering retell of better stories written 50-100 years previous made to be a motion picture, and take it's rightful place along the check out lines of grocery stores across America.
I am not trying to write the great American novel. It's been done for better or for worse every year for the last 50. It's overdone, and I'm tired of false earnest writers selling us a graduate thesis veiled behind flat characters.
Lastly Genre, some people feel ill at the sight of swords, aliens, goblins, or vampires in novels. For me the stories are like any other. I feel many great writers have been stifled by their attempt to avoid genres, just as many locked themselves into one. Forget it.
I guess this brings me to the real point, the cheery atop my rambling sundae. I love Punk Rock, well the spirit anyway. I love Fugazi, and bands who broke the genre out of three chords and dyed hair. I love all the kids making music in their bedrooms with a half working four track. Right now there is much complaint about the state of publishing. Many experiments proving classics would never be published again. It reminds of the music industry. The only way to ensure that we can put out great works is to do it ourselves. I am going to push myself to publish a novel by February 2007. Even if I fail, at least I tried.