Day 1

Hi. I'm Sarah and I made this blog in order to transform myself into the greatest writer in the world. See, I'm one of those people who needs all the motivation I can get to do anything consistently. Name anything remotely good for me and I've tried and failed to stick with it: exercising, eating right, not procrastinating, learning to crochet, playing the bass guitar, flossing. A common enough problem. Anyway, I'm a literary journalism major (which is basically creative writing for people who lack the imagination to make up interesting stuff) and I just finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The book hypothesizes why depressingly successful people are the way they are. Basically, they work their asses off and happen to be in the right place, right time. One of the chapters is about how you have to practice something for 10,000 hours before you're good at it. So, unless I want to be a world-class sleeper or internet surfer, I'm screwed. If I want to be a writer, good enough to make anything of myself, I need to start practicing. A lot. Right now. I love to write, but I tend to be perfectionistic and self-conscious about my work. That's where this blog comes in. I got the idea from Julie/Julia (see how creative I am? all my ideas come from other books...). The main character is  a loser and decides to start a blog, even though no one will read it, to make herself actually do something and stay with it. I do not guarantee the quality, quantity or entertainment value of anything I write here, but I do promise to be consistent.

Here goes nothing.