Introductions : Hello Folks!

I've never actually started a thread on any sites I frequent, let enough alone and actual introduction, so please forgive me if I ramble or sound generally like a moron.

Anyway, I'm Angel, a 32 year-old lapsed writer. Having pretty much given up my dreams of becoming a man most people would hate to look intelligent or counter-cultural, I've recently found myself at a place where I deeply regret not pushing forward with this.

Obviously, I've created a laundry list of excuses NOT to write over the past decade:

• I has a job!
• I has a wife!
• I has a kid!
• I has no balls...

You know, is this a laundry list? What the hell is a laundry list, anyway? Is it, like, how you list out the colors or fabrics? I need to look into that one day.

Anyway, so I'm a bit of a coward when it comes to writing. Recently, a couple of things happened to push me away from that behavior, one positive and one negative. The positive being some inspiration from a friend who recently self-published a pretty outstanding zombie novella and the negative being a little storm called Sandy.

Not to toot my own horn, but I was directly impacted by the storm. Luckily, it wasn't as bad as it could have been, but it was enough to realize that there's a lot of shit I put aside for no reason while a lot of useless shit became a priority. That's not the way I want my life to continue going, and while I entertain no delusion that I'll charge out the gates and be some literary giant, I'm tired of not putting the crap in my head on paper.

So, like I said, I rant.

Long story short, I look forward to getting to know some of you, read some work and participate in discussion. Hopefully, I'll be able to share something I write as well.

Be easy.