A Preface

Apparently blogspot won't let me add an "about" link to this page, so I'm going to have to (very annoyingly) add this to the entries and hope that anyone actually interested in this thing (probably just myself) will read this to understand what I'm attempting here.

This plain Jane blog is an attempt for me to get more of the creative writing I do out there, and not so much as a polished work but as a congregate idea (hence the name "An Ugly Avalanche"), something I can look back on and understand through a lens of girth and example. I'm not sure how this thing's going to evolve, so at first I'm going to begin by posting what I have of ideas (titled by date) and adding to them if they suit my fancy. What I'm hoping is to develop more taut, complete short fiction, but as it stands I figure I should just make an effort to make an effort, and a public forum seems like it will better compel me to continue this if for no other reason than guilt.

Another reason I wanted to use a blog to do this rather than just typing it for my personal records is that I would really like this to be a communal effort, something where I can get multiple people contributing and have us sharing ideas, working off each others' ideas and playing games with how the fiction here turns out.

There's a period of interest, digestion and evolution in ideas, and I'm hoping to find how I reflect that by working more regularly on this blog. Whatever, I guess it's better to act than sit here and babble on, so let the great experiment begin!!!!