Tuesday, July 24, 2007

So much nitwittery, so little time

Yes, I'm aware it's late July and I'm just now doing my first post of 2007.

I'm still unemployed, still looking for gainful employment. In the meantime, I've decided something.

I've been clipping articles from The Tennessean for months now, filing them away in an expandable folder labeled ISSUES. They're articles about a bunch of stuff that I'm interested in, from television to politics to dieting and so forth. Some are long pieces, like the two-parter they ran recently about fathers and DNA testing and child support. Others are small little single-paragraph things, like the one a few weeks back about the head of the VA resigning. Most of them are about things that, in one way or another, really piss me off.

I've decided that I'm going to start pulling out one of those articles every few days and I'm going to write about it. Whatever it was that made me want to clip it in the first place, that's what I'm going to write about. Then I'm going to post that essay (or whatever you want to call it) here. Then I'll pull out another article.

Call it practice for writing regularly again. Call it trying to become a better writer so maybe I can submit some of my work someplace. Call it... call it writing.