Mkii

The other day I made a pizza. That may not sound like much to whomsoever may read this, but it was kind of a big deal for me. I've never really been one much for cooking, but I've been trying to do more things lately that I haven't really been 'one much for' in the past. Thus, a pizza was created.

It's not really the pizza that prompts this newest of writing endeavors, however. It was the fact that I was proud of my pizza, and felt like sharing my (mundane) accomplishment. Once the pizza had been fully cooked and partially ingested, I was struck by the need to write up a bit of a story concerning my trials and tribulations of pizza cookery.

The subsequent email that resulted (to my Mom, whose recipe I followed) was probably the equivalent of 3 pages. I had taken pictures (one just before oven insertion, and one just after removal from said oven) of the pizza, and those were both included in the email to said maternal unit.

Writing that email about a mostly ordinary event in my life felt good. Hence, this nascent blog was brought into this world, kicking, screaming, and probably unwilling, but it had to be done. I have lots of things that I want to write, some of which I actually am, but in writing that email to my Mom, I realized that there was sort of an untapped creative reserve.

Sometimes I have trouble finding motivation to write. Often it's because what I'm thinking of writing is too monumental to even really start. I say that because I have long thought of writing, but only recently have I really gotten anything going. Last Spring I was pretty well dumbstruck by an idea that was nearly a complete plot from beginning to end, and I began working on it in earnest in August. Right now I'm at about 40,000 words, and I keep getting stuck. I know what needs to happen next, but it just seems so overwhelming a task, that I keep putting it off. That, or the opposite happens, and I think that since the over-arching idea is so clear in my head that I think it will practically write itself. But then, when it doesn't, I get discouraged and go another week without adding hardly anything at all.

I know that I'm using the word 'I' too much, but that doesn't seem like it can be much helped for the moment. This paragraph was intended to be about something else, but the writer of said paragraph had had a realization that was deemed worthy of comment.

I can't say that I'll add an epically mundane story of my life every day. I can't promise that everything will make grammatical and correctly spelled sense. I can't guarantee that I'll tell anyone about this work in progress.

What I can say, is what I'm hoping for and intending right now. Put simply, I want this to be a kind of reserve. A place where I can write what comes into my head. It doesn't have to be connected to anything. For now, I assume it will mostly be nonfictitious events from my life that may or may not have been enhanced or altered for the purposes of levity; both my own and anyone with whom I may or may not share this. It may end up including works of fiction, I don't really know. What I really want out of this is a place to get some writing out of my system. Something that makes it a little easier to write for the projects that have long been in the making, but seem so daunting for such little reasons.

Also, I hope to add pictures where reasonable/applicable.

In closing, a couple of explanations are in order. Be they for myself only, for the purposes of the historical records, or for newcomers who are trying to figure me out (good luck with that... and if you should succeed, please explain me to myself).

The idea of this 'blog came about the day after the event with the pizza. Now, I had written a 'blog back in '06, which detailed a fairly epic adventure I had taking state highways to Chicago, driving Route 66 down to LA, then taking the Pacific Coast Highway back home. That 'blog had been (and is still) entitled 'the adventures of capcoy.' I'd had thoughts of just continuing that one but decided that I would leave it alone and intact. An encapsulation of a time that was (which you can find conveniently enough at capcoy.blogspot.com). This work, being about more the every day for me (hence the 'mundane' in the title) is something separate.

Also, the above paragraph should help explain the URL to anyone I may have shared it with, or anyone who happens upon it, I suppose. The 'm' is for mundane, and the 'ad' is for adventure. Plus, and this was purely a coincidental benefit, you can change the spacing in your mind's eye, and make it madcap coy--which works too.

Also, and probably finally, the title of this current post is Mkii. In and of itself, it should probably make sense given the fact that I've stated this is my newest and most second blog ever! But I probably didn't actually need to explain any of that to you. You're either me, or exceptionally clever.