I have wanted to do this for a long time. If I had started trying to be a writer of fiction twenty years ago, I would have failed because I did not have the experiences I believe one needs from life to tell a good story. At least not the kind of stories I want to tell to you. Surely, there are have always been gifted youngsters right out of college or university who have always been able to sit in a room and craft beautiful tales out of circumstances created entirely in their minds. I have never possessed such gifts. And I have never had the patience to write a story and attempt to get it published in the traditional submission-and-rejection manner, even in this age of the internet and email.
I want to tell you my stories my way. So I offer you this, SmallStories, an outlet, ego trip, and, perhaps, a refuge for stories crafted from all the ideas and observations that have been rattling around in my head for the last twenty years.
Not all of my stories will be happy, nor all of them sad. They will reflect experiences I have had and people I have met, and will come in the order in which my brain decides to concentrate on them and my fingers to write them. There will be some bad words and some uncomfortable ideas. But I have faith in your ability to enjoy my stories, just as I finally have faith in my ability to write them.
Welcome, and enjoy—Dan Ryan
Nootilus
/ January 21, 2010Hello Dan!
Congratulations for that brand new blog! I’ll be happy to read those stories. Don’t mind if it takes me a moment. I dislike reading such texts from a screen.
Your blog orientation reminded me a very nice theme I saw when I was looking for another theme: http://wp-content-themes.com/doc-a-free-minimal-wordpress-27-theme/257
Should suit yours perfectly, doesn’t it?
Also, if I may, I’d like to advise you to turn that introductionnal post into the page “About”. That’s easier and cleaner. Also, you have the option to turn of the comments for this page (or article if you like to keep it as so). Maybe it’s absolutely not in the same editorial way you choose for your blog. It’s an usual way to do for me with the blogs I did. If so, discard my ideas (and this comment), I won’t mind
Thanks to share those stories with us, and congrats again
Carolyn P,
/ January 22, 2010I like seeing your name at the top of the blog. Should you have a copyright sign somewhere? The story blog feels naked without the copyright sign on the premises.
Carolyn P,
/ January 22, 2010I like seeing your name at the top of the blog. Should you have a copyright sign somewhere? The story blog feels naked without the copyright sign on the premises. But what do I know since I haven’t read anyone else’s story blog
Amy Titus
/ January 25, 2010Hi –
I enjoyed reading your stories very much. Thank you for making them available to us all, and for posting the link on Brsnet! I look forward to reading more of your work.
Amy Titus