A note regarding the title

Before I get very far into this blogging adventure, I ought to explain the title of my blog. "Thought Yarn" is a term I came up with to describe all the bits and pieces of stories and characters and ideas I come up with and have no plans for how to use them. They are bouncing around in my head, stuffed away in drawers and folders and binders, and saved into the archives of my computer to potentially see the light of day again  at some later date.

I am the same way with yarn as I am with these thoughts and ideas that I discover and have no clue what to do with but cannot discard. When I go into a craft store I always have to browse through the yarn before I can leave. More often than not this browsing leads to buying, and a ball or two of yarn follows me home. I usually have no immediate plans for this newly acquired yarn, but someday I will come up with something to do with it. Until then, it goes to live in the laundry hamper that holds my stash of soft and squishy rainbows.

So this blog will become my idea-stash, just like the laundry hamper is my yarn-stash. Day by day I will toss in new ideas that I simply have to keep for no particular reason other than the fact I want them for later, just in case. Thus, the thoughts and ideas that will build up over time in this blog are my balls of though yarn, just waiting for the perfect project to come along and use them.

Away we go!

Here I am at my very first blog, sending my thoughts and randomness out into the nothing and everything of the internet. If you were to ask me right now why I decided to write a blog, I could honestly not tell you. "It sounded like a good idea" is really no reason at all, since it has no justification behind it. I could say I read in magazines that it would be good to increase my online presence and make myself more noticeable, but I have nothing written or published as yet to be noticed. 

I suppose the best reason I can come up with to keep a blog right now is for the deadline. This is a place I have to come to submit my work. If I were still in school I would have to be handing in homework and finishing assignments on schedule. If I was writing for a contract I would have a deadline to meet. But I am no longer an enrolled student and I do not have a writing contract with an agent or publisher. Instead I will have a contract with this blog, and with you my reader, whoever and wherever you are. 

What I write will more often than not be completely random. My topics will be dictated by whim, interest of the moment, thought of the day, caffeine levels, or if all else fails a writing prompt from one of my many helpful handbooks for getting words on (virtual) paper. I make no promises as to content. The only goal I have for this blog is to get myself to sit down and actually write on a regular basis. I need to make time in my life for writing if I am ever going to become the author I want to be, and nothing I have tried as yet has kept me honest to myself and my goals. Hopefully this blog will be what I need to get myself motivated and regulated. 

With no further ado, off we go into a new writing adventure!