could be a blog

I have decided that I could be doing a lot worse with my time than starting a blog, so here it is.

Since surviving the brutal Japanese winter for the first (and last) time, I could feel my creativity draining from me like so much oil from the ruptured underside of my piece of shit car (R.I.P.). I was no longer writing much of anything, despite the noble attempts our group of expat JET writers initially made. Truth is, after aborting my novel midway through November, I had barely written more than a page, and after being honest with myself, I felt I could no longer in good faith call myself even an amateur writer.
This blog is an attempt to fix that. Sure, I am plenty active on Twitter, but I can barely consider 147 character semi-witticisms to be a true test of creativity. A blog will offer something in a longer format, tempered by the internet's ability to render anything I say less meaningful. I figure it'll allow me to take what I'm saying less seriously, while diving back into extended writing.
Here goes nothing.