Begin at the Beginning

You know how when you are writing a story, or composing a paper, the hardest part is coming up with the intro? You know how you can sit there for hours, staring at a blank word document, without the slightest idea of how to start? Yeah, well that's happening to me right now. I created this blog a couple of days ago, because I enjoyed writing, and I thought it would be nice to have a place where I can express my ideas, opinions, and ramble away to my hearts content. But until this point I haven't posted anything on it. Part of the problem is that I fractured my pinky a couple of weeks ago, which makes typing rather difficult, and I also am really busy getting ready for a debate tournament; in fact I'm probably going to regret the time I'm taking to type this, later. But I think the real reason I haven't posted anything, is because I haven't been quite sure how to begin. I wanted my first post to be sort of an introduction. To explain why I got  a blog, why I chose the name I did, and maybe explaining a little about myself (of course, without reveling enough information that my mom become paranoid that someone is going to steal my identity and/or stalk me). In the end I decided that the best thing to do was just to start writing, and see if anything coherent comes out. So, here I go...

I already explained that the reason why I wanted to get a blog, in my opening paragraph; so I'll get right into the story behind the name of my blog. After I had definitely decided to get a blog, the next important decision I had, was what to call it. I considered many different names, but I wasn't happy with any of them. So I tried to think about what the purpose of this blog was and what I was going to write about, in the hopes of coming up with a name. After considering word such as "random" and "scribblings" the word "scrawlings" came into my mind (although according to the spell check on Google Chrome "scawlings" isn't a real word.). So I looked up the meaning on Dictionary.com; "[scrawls:] awkward, careless, or illegible handwriting. something scrawled, as a letter or a note" and since these post will sort of be notes about my life, I decided that it would be perfect for the title of my blog. Also, my hand writing is rather illegible.

Well, I think this post has reached a sufficient length, and although I had wanted to explain a little about myself in my first post; I  really have procrastinated long enough. Plus, it's always good not to reveal to much of one's self all at once. After all, as a friend of mine once said, "when all is known, there is nothing more to learn." So, I guess my monologue about my self will have to wait until another time.

Until I write again, au revoir.

~Nat