The Rules

After years of skipping from marble-cover journals to xanga to aim profiles, I have finally settled on a blog to carve out my own personal (and hopefully permanent) niche in cyberspace. Knowing my tendency toward laziness and inertia, I am going to set some ground rules that I will attempt to follow.

There are multiple reasons for this blog: 1. to practice my writing, 2. to provide a chronicle of the rest of my adolescence, 3. to rant and rave without bursting any eardrums, 4. and last of all to discipline myself. I am an unorthodoxly undisciplined writer (see that double negative there?) and planner. In a time when spontaneity and randomness is all the rage, I am simply searching for a routine. An anchor for my hectic--or more often, boring--life.

At the ripe old age of 16, I feel that it is time to put down some thoughts to reflect on in 10 years. Certainly, the Internet is a very unreliable storage center. The Internet is the most private of places, and also the most public. This blog will be accessible to millions by the click of a mouse, yet so anonymous and obscure that nearly no one will stumble upon it. It is here that I seek to write, unburdened by expectations or readership.

And finally, the rules:

1. Make some sense.
Call me old-fashioned, but I simply cannot stand improper grammar. The Internet has certainly been the bane of my grammatical skills and is at least partly responsible for my disappointing SAT writing score. Either way, I do solemnly swear to always use correct grammar, to the best of my ability without spellchecker.

2. Write, write, write.
That's what this blog is for right? I am obviously not the most talented of writers, but I wish to improve. At least one coherent entry per week.

3. No illusions of grandeur.
This is my anonymous space. I do not expect anyone to read this. I do not expect to make money off of it.

4. Make some sense. II
No links to stories of people being stuck on toilet seats or other econ article miscellanies. I wish to write about myself (as egotistical as that may sound), not about random occurings of the far-off world.

5. My ain true love.
Film. As I hastily head off to college and begin planning the rest of my life, am I seriously considering a career in film? This is the time to find out. Okay, so the actual rule here is: write about film.

6. Pretension, ugh!
Don't pretend to be smarter than you are. Big words only sound smart when you use them right, not when you drop them like hot potatoes. Who am I trying to impress anyway? Myself? Thank you very much but I'm already quite impressed with myself. Ha, I wish!

7. Be true to myself.
Again, who am I trying to impress? I will write everything the exact way I feel it, with all the insecurities and typos that may came out.

8. Exercise...
The right brain that is. I'm hopelessly inartistic and unmusical, writing is my last resort. Be witty, be saucy, be bitchy. I have free reign here.

9. Remember that thing called "life"?
Never lose perspective of everything else. There will be more important things, get to them first.

10. Have fun!I
It's the greasy, cheesy thing, but I know I want it.