Where did I put those jumper cables?

I'm terrible at starting things like this.  I get an idea and excitement fills me then I see the work that is involved and I chicken out half way through.  Well I cobbled together this page, sorry if it hurts your eyes I promise to adjust that, and that is more than I have done in the past.  Good start right?  Let's hope so.

The whole point of this is to chronicle my journey to the last word of an original novel, that however is somewhere in the distance. 

I tried this all once before on LiveJournal, granted it was much less ambitious, hopefully a fresh start someplace new will kill the old demons and allow me to follow through with it, guess only time will tell.

Ok the start, that where things like this usually begin right?  Good of place as any.  They say to write what you know and as of right now the thing I know best and feel most comfortable writing is Xenosaga.  What the fuck is that you ask?  It's a video game series for the Playstation 2 that was overly ambitious, plagued by cast and crew changes and a victim of it's own story.  Not to say it is bad, not in the least if it was it wouldn't be my focus right now would it?

Yes this will be fan fiction, that evil beast that supposedly talentless hacks write in the basement of their parents homes surrounded by creepy shrines to character's and worlds that aren't real.  Let me tell you this though, I have read many, many fan fiction stories and I can tell you that a plethora of them are better writers than a good portion of published authors.  Argue this if you want but it's my opinion, the plan is to write my own fan fiction to hone my writing skills as well as give me time to come up with an original story and flesh out the details of it.  Does that elude to hope of originality on the horizon, bet you ass it does; for now though you'll have to bear with me.  Deal with it.

I will give you a brief overview of Xenosaga's story line however that is another post in of itself so for now I will end it here.  So welcome to my little world, the sun is up, the coffee is brewing(or beer chilling, depending) and my search for Calliope has just begun.