Long day

So today's going to be a long day at the office. We've got some people coming in so we can gauge the interest in a class on business writing. I won't get home until the time when I usually sit on the couch with my wife and we either read books or watch DVDs of one of our favorite TV comedies. While I'm excited about the prospect of teaching writing, I'm sad that it's at the expense of quality time at home. The price we pay, right?

Here's the kind of writing I envision taking up the introspective parts of this blog:

• kind of confessional, like Anne Sexton, who I think was hot. There's just something about crazy women that sucks men in like a tractor beam. The downside to me being all confessional is that there probably isn't anything juicy. But I don't plan on hiding things, which will be a rare thing for me. While I'm on the subject, what is it with people sharing things online that they wouldn't dare go to a party, stand on the table, and declare to everyone at the party? And yet, in essence, it's the same freaking thing! I realize the ridiculousness of me knocking that and then fully planning on declaring everything myself.
  
• self-focused, but not to the same degree as Marcel Proust. I do have other things to do besides sit here and write everything that comes into my head. But I want to get as much of it down as I can while I'm sitting here. And as someone with a healthy (perhaps unhealthily high) regard for himself, I have no problem talking about myself.
• as honest as possible. I get tired of couching things in glossy terms, like a Potemkin village, when things aren't as great as I'm describing. I don't expect to have to spare anyone's feelings, so I'm not going to. Having said that, I'm not going to go out of my way to write in order to offend someone. That's not who I am.

Think of this kind of like my diary. I'm writing it for me and you can stumble on it and read it if you want, get your voyeuristic little thrill out of poring over my pages and realize that your life isn't really that boring after all.

Do I really need this kind of explanation? Seriously, most authors just start with a story. Whatever. I've already written it and don't feel like deleting it all. Besides, it would also violate my rules. Maybe that's why I have them. As a reminder to leave it, since I have a tendency to edit and rewrite everything as I go. I've got to get a draft out and then go back to it. Which applies more to the book I want to write than to this blog.

I wonder if anyone besides my wife will read this. And if they don't, so what?