Ok.. so I'm getting the feeling that I should explain my purpose here.

I joined deviantART because my friend *Forsaken2544 has been on here for goddamn ever and has been bugging me and sending me stupid pictures I can't look at because of the bleeding content filter. I'm not much of a writer, really. I mean, I've always thought it would be "neat" to be a writer, but there is a very pragmatic side to me that (when I go there) says "... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ok, that's a rough paraphrasing, but you get the idea.

The thing is that I don't think I'm a bad writer, per se, it's more that I'm a bad "plotter." I don't have the 'creative drive' to come up with plot-lines that really entrance the mind. When I *do* finally come up with a good plot-line (plot line? plotline?) I usually am not sure how to execute it. Also, I think that fantasy writing is hit or miss, really. In fact, often times I think that fantasy fiction is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to writing. Until recently, when I read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (speaking of which, according to [link] A Dance with Dragons comes out on April 7th, but Mr. Martin hasn't announced anything on his website yet), I had pretty much written off the entire genre as being made up of talentless hacks who couldn't write a novel for an adult if their life depended on it.

But lately between Josh and Shaun and myself we've been building a little writing group and I find that really fun and unique. It makes me really want to write for the first time in years. I want to piece things together, if for no other reason.. well.. the challenge of it. But at the same time, while I enjoy writing, I don't write for me.. I write for other people. I want to be read which brings us back to the scathing, pragmatic voice in the back of my head.

So how does one DO that? And how does one become a writing scab in Hollywood? Those are the operative questions, today.