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Is there anything more frightening to an author than a blank page? Lucky for me I'm not an author or writer. I'm just a hack. Maybe if I'd finished school or taken any sort of classes to hone my skills I'd consider myself a writer, but for the time-being I'm just a hack. None-the-less, I do enjoy writing and I do enjoy a good lively debate. I like the idea that someone could be swayed by words.

Now, this is not my first attempt at keeping a journal or starting a blog. The first was a miserable failure. It took roughly seven years for anyone to show any interest in it and now it's a moot point. The second was also a miserable failure. I wanted to start the second as a way of working out story ideas. I had this crazy idea I could come up with a workable storyline for either a movie, television series or book. As it turns out, I wasn't totally crazy.

I had talked about a crime drama set in and around New Orleans. I'd thought maybe another Law & Order or CSI series (CSI: Big Easy or some such). Say hello to K-Ville. I'd talked about even taking my crime drama to another plane and using a forensics photographer that captured the souls of murder victims in his film and they helped him solve the crimes. It was only a rough idea, but I saw its potential. Apparently the idea of the deceased helping in solving their deaths wasn't totally crazy either. We now have the Ghost Whisperer and TruCalling for a while too....

Anyway, my Ideas blog kind of degenerated into a generic journal type blog and because I suck at keeping journals, it eventually just died a slow agonizing death. Then while working on another job where I suddenly found myself with a stupid amount of time to just fuck-off, I decided to revamp it and started out v2.0 with a new twist, I'd try to really engage the reader... get the reader talking too. It too sucked ass. I had some good articles and tried to spark a little discussion, but short of spamming the hell out of message boards, I just couldn't put together readers to troll through my drivel and make it worth anything. It kind of sputtered and sat idle for about a year.

Then came my latest attempts... I started up a random give-me-money blog to see how crazy online readers really are. Will they just give because someone asks? Apparently not, but I think driving traffic to the site is again the issue. The people I know that might read my crap are typically too intelligent to just give money because I asked for it.

In the interest of discussion, I also tried another discussion Blog. A couple of air personalities at a local radio station found and started reading the journal of some mysterious young woman. Each day came with a new entry and posed new questions. The personalities had a discussion day early in and kept promising another, but I wanted to discuss the journal with other listeners every day. So, I went back to the original journal entries and transcribed them (to make them that much more readable and to provide a place to discuss them). So far no comments.

And so here we are. I've started yet another blog. I don't really have a good reason for it except that Blogger offers the "Next Blog" button where people randomly surfing might come across your blog. For the most part, people have to know about and be seeking your blog at LiveJournal. So for a while anyway, I'm going to maintain both my LJ Blog and this one. Once I get a feel for which is getting more traffic I'll probably only maintain the one, but we'll see how it goes.

Thanks for stopping by, and if you've made it this far, I'd appreciate your opinion. Your opinion on what? Aw hell, I don't care. Anything. Make it interesting enough and I might even run with it as a blog entry and try to get a little discussion going.