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Learning the craft

Here’s a great thing about learning the craft of writing: It’s completely OK to charge ahead, even when you don’t know what you’re doing.

This makes it very different from engineering, or from fixing houses or cars, to use examples from my experience. In those endeavors, when you don’t know what you’re doing, your supplies get ruined. You hurt your hands. You end up with something useless, or even dangerous.

But in writing, you’ve lost some time and some paper, and you’ve gained perspective and experience that really help when you get around to studying and learning from people who know more than you do.

New Beginnings

America, the land of second chances.

About four years ago, the web service Blogger (owned by Google) stopped supporting blogs hosted anywhere except on their own site.

Around the same time, I got divorced and —for some time during and after —lost my blogging voice. I’d start to write, and the words on the screen in front of me would just glare back accusingly.

I made a couple of attempts to revamp the site, but I was intimidated by the work required to find, install, and configure new blogging software. Besides, there’s a lot of new features and functionality that have been developed since I taught myself basic HTML.

Now, with some help, I’m back up and running. And looking forward to having some things to say in 2012.