I Write Like

For our first installment of World Wide Wednesday I picked a simple little website which I came across "which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers." I write like is a very straight forward website where you copy a sample of your writing and simply paste it into a block, click on the analyze button at the bottom of the page, and presto your work has been compared to a famous and well respected author.

I played around with the website and copied a few different posts. The website is certainly good for one's self esteem because at best I was comically compared to James Joyce and at worst I was compared to Stephen King (who does OK in spite of what critics might suggest). Interestingly enough the website never responded by saying, "your writing is crap, did you ever wonder why your a blogger rather than an author?"

The Best Laid Plans...

So I have thought out an agenda for the blog. I doesn't necessarily mean that I will start writing every day and I reserve the right to break my own self imposed rules. In the interest of sparking a higher quality of creativity I will try to post on different topics on different days. That way over the course of a week a thought can be more refined on a given topic.

Monday- Motion Picture Monday's will be for discussing or reviewing movies, either the family movie of the week, a new movie coming out, or perhaps a classic favorite. Another possibility is secondary topics related to movies such as who's the best Bond or the Jedi Religion.

Tuesday- Fish Stories will be reserved for Tuesdays. I do most of my fishing over the weekend so this is a good day to spin some new yarns or share some photos.

Wednesday- World Wide Wednesday is the day to explore unusual articles and websites from the web. A link to a link can lead you to some interesting places, and there's always YouTube.

Thursday- A picture is worth A Thousand Words. Picture, link as appropriate, and credit only no words on Thursday.

Friday- Family Friday will cover our adventures in parenting, what the boy is up to, etc.

Saturday- Jumble covers loose odds and ends Muskrat scores, politics, crazy drivers with cell phones, whatever.

Sunday- Super Sports Sunday covers topics near and dear to my heart in the world of sports. The Tour de France, the Little League World Series...whatever as long as it's sports related.

Structure

As if my life doesn't have enough structure I am dabbling with the idea of adding a little structure to my blog. This will give me a different topic as a jumping off point perhaps sparking creativity. One example would be World Wide Wednesday for I find some mindless drivel from the web, like the mushroom song, or this.

We'll see, I am still mulling over topics but with school winding down I will have a ton more free time.

The Blog 2.0

Things a blog is unlikely to do for me;

1. make any money

2. make many friends

3. make me famous

4. combining 1 and 3, a blog is also unlikely to catapult me to a lucrative writing career after being "discovered."

Things that a blog is good for;

1. A constructive outlet to let one vent what's on their mind and a socially acceptable bit of self-centered vanity.

It's OK to blog, your's isn't likely to be any worse than mine.

So my wife and I live in a modest house in central New Hampshire (that's the state near the top right corner of the map, assuming you know how to hold the map). We have an almost three year-old son, affectionately referred to as "the boy." I am for the moment a full time student (four more classes) and a full time employee at a local bank. My greatest passion is my family (yes, really) eight years in the Army gave me a sincere appreciation for what really matters in life. I do have normal interest as well including politics, sports, and business (my major, B.S. in Business with an emphasis in Public Administration).

After I finish my bachelor's I am considering going straight into a master's degree at Plymouth State. Thinking about another two years of school makes me tired and Robinson Cano just pasted a home run to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead over the Orioles so maybe I should publish before I get to Debbie Downer.