Maiden Voyage

I tend to be an introspective person.  In fact, up until now I shied away from blogs, Twitter and I treated Facebook like I had an allergic reaction to it. I just didn't see the need to tell everyone what I was doing or thinking in that exact moment.  I felt like a salmon trying to swim in the opposite direction of all the other salmon.  In this day of mass communication, with everyone knowing everything about everyone else, I guess I was content to sit and watch everyone else surf the technology wave.  This from a communications major, from a writer who wants to be published.  In fact, it is my writing that brings me here at last.  Everyone I talk to in the writing biz says you have to be hip, get with the program, get out there.  They tell me that "publishers and agents want you to market yourself, be your own best advocate."  I guess as a writer, I have to think of a blog as just an enhanced journal.  I'm better at typing than handwriting, so hopefully this will stir my muse.  Here's to the beginning of a new journey for me.  Next stop, the unknown