My First Post!

Hello, all!

I haven't blogged in a while but I wanted to start a new blog, as you can probably guess from the title, to help improve my writing skills.

Ever since I was little I've had a passion for writing and I believe God has given me a talent for it as well. My desire is to use this talent to glorify God by writing stories I can take pride in and others can enjoy. My eventual goal is to be a published author. Until then I really want to work on perfecting my technique and I'm hoping the readers of my blog will help me with that.

This is how I want the blog to work.

Every Monday I'll ask my readers to post ideas for short stories. By short I mean 1-3 pages on Microsoft Word. The stories can be about pretty much any topic but it has to be a topic that can be resolved in a short story. I'll pick one of the several topics suggested and write a story about it.

I'll take most of the week to work on the story and then on Saturday I'll post it on my blog and open it up for comments. Since the point of this is to improve my writing, I'll welcome constructive criticism as well as compliments.

Any story topics that aren't picked can be suggested again and I'll try my best to pick at least one topic from all of my readers.

I've set my comments to allow anyone to comment including anyone who doesn't have a blog. I'll post some guidelines later about comments and story topics.

For now I just wanted to introduce the blog and invite you all to keep checking back regularly and suggesting story topics. For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook, I'll be posting links to my blog there regularly.

I'll post more later on this week about how everything will work and I'll accept my first list of topic suggestions on Monday the 11th.