I've sold out

Well, not really. I've, what blogger calls, monetized my blog. All this means for you my loyal reader is that now you will see some of the books, movies, games etc I review or talk about on the site being underlined. If you read the review for, say, The Blind Side, and you feel the urge to own the movie right this instant, well, I can help you with that and you will be helping me, and my wife, and my two daughters. Cough *guilt trip* cough.

Every time you click one of the links it sends you the Amazon page for that product. And, if by some miracle you actually buy the movie right there and then, I get a teeny tiny percentage of the sale and Amazon will love me and I it.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled bloggery.

Disney on Ice tonight

Review forthcoming. Will Tinker bell fall on her ass? How exactly do the cars from Cars skate? Will we have to leave ten minutes into the show because our daughters' snot bubbles are dripping on the families below?

These exciting tidbits and more to come.

Quick note on Grammar and Spelling

I suck at both of them right now. I used to be quite the grammar and spelling scholar in my school days. However, a combination of email, forgetfulness, and laziness has brought my knowledge of the written word to its knees.

You will undoubtedly see cringe worthy spelling mistakes and grammar errors that would make that shooting a panda lady slap her forehead in disgust.

I can only promise that I'm trying to get better and I hope you'll see a marked improvement as the posts start to add up over the weeks.

So it begins...

Here it goes. This is my first post on my first ever blog. It is rather exciting in a sad sort of way.

So, what to write about?

I think the best place to start is to say the whole purpose of my blog is to get me writing again. I'm an aspiring fiction writer and I've started and stopped numerous book ideas since I graduated from the UCF creative writing program in 1999. It's now over ten years and I've had nothing published. In fact, I've not really even finished much of anything.

Ten years is enough of a grace period. It is time to see if I really have what it takes. I have confidence in my writing and storytelling abilities which is really saying something as I'm generally a rather poor fan of my own abilities in most aspects of my life.

Wow. This has been a really whiny first post. I had to get it out of my system though.

Fun times ahead.