A Short Mission Statement

    Hello.  This is a blog to help me start writing.  I have read posts by trans authors who seem very far above me that say you should write consistently.  As in every day.  As in, get those 10,000 hours in motherfucker.  So be it.  When I was 15 I would write so much so fast my fingers hurt.  I would not like for my hands to hurt, but I would like to be able to tell people my hands hurt from writing.  I would like for that to segue into them holding my hands, which are hurting.  I would like for my admirers to be women.  I would like for pretty women to tell me that they love my writing and for them to feel like they love me, by extension.

    This is a blog to help me to start writing.  Other writers self-mythologize.  By contrast, everything you read here is 100 percent unadulterated, but still as interesting as though I were just making things up.  For the time being I would like to post 1,000 words, once a week.  Possibly more if I can manage it.  This post will not be a thousand words.  My next post, next week, will be 1,000 words long.  If it is November 2021, hello.  If it is sometime in the future, long past that, hello me.  I promise that I will not censor myself out of fear of being made fun of.  If you are making fun of me, hello also.
   
    This is a blog to help me start writing.  Some of my posts will be about video games, and my relationship to them as someone who has played them but cannot make them.  I am in awe of people who can make art in the same way that some are in awe of me for doing math.  This is all illusion.  Talent is about focus and interest.  I can focus, and I am interested.  Hence, I am talented.  We live in a meritocracy, so nothing else in particular is required.  You should edit your baby's genes so they turn out like me.

    This is a blog to help me start writing.  I am also interested in gender, and ideas of gender, and talking about my own gender, and most importantly talking out of my ass about gender.  As I live different pieces of womanhood I will frame them so that other women can see themselves in a new way, and so that they can see that I am a woman as well.  There will come a time very soon where I no longer count as "queer" in a political sense so I will have to steal as much valor as I can, while I can.  Don't worry, my opinions will be enriching.  I have read Gender Trouble, and found it wanting.

    This is a blog to help me start writing.  This post won't be 1,000 words long, but perhaps it can be 500.  This is a blog to help me start writing.

    

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