Beginnings

I've been thinking about this blog for a couple of months now. I've been playing with the idea of it in my head, examining it from different angles. I've been looking at it in the dark of my mind, and now it's time to see how the light shines off of it.
I first got the incentive to write this blog while talking to my good friend about a webcomic she just finished, Jamzi (there's a link). The months I was reading Jamzi were very good ones, and I wished that I could do something like that. It occurred to me though that, while I'm neither comfortable nor practiced enough an artist to commit to something like a webcomic, I do feel that I'm a strong enough writer to commit to its words-only equivalent: the serial novel. Thus, the idea for the blog was conceived.
Now, it's all well and good to say that you're going to write a serial novel and post it on a blog, but it doesn't mean jack shit if you don't have a serial novel to write. That's the part of the planning process that was the hardest. My first instinct was to throw the first couple of thousand words of a novel I'd started nearly half a year earlier at a web page and run, but at the time, I was so unsatisfied with how the beginnings of that novel had turned out that the idea of putting it on the internet for all the world to see was immediately rejected. My next idea was to take an outline I'd written only just before I began the previously mentioned novel and just write the story as I went. Somehow though, for reasons I'm still uncertain of, that novel never really managed to waddle its way off of the back burner.
For a long time after I'd rejected my second idea, the concept of this blog remained only a barely-formed thing in my mind. Last week though, after months of absolute silence, the characters from the novel I'd first thought I would use came back to me, stronger and clearer than they'd ever been. The last week has been spent revising those first 10,000 words like a mad man. The course of the story is easier to see, and the first chapter isn't so damn depressing as it was before. Today, I decided that it was time: the blog must be born.
So, I present to you, "Pygmalion", the story of a young artist discovering himself. I'm not going to give you much more than that, because I want the writing to speak for itself. I've been plotting and planning these two months, and now finally it's time. I hereby declare this blog born unto the internet! And now, on to business.
The structure of the blog is simple. Every Monday before midnight my time, I guarantee a posting of a portion of the novel that is somewhere in the range of 2000 words. I have about 12,000 words written so far, so that gives me a nice cushion to fall back on. In between Mondays, I will probably be posting progress reports just to let you know how the writing is going or to give you a little extra bit of writing that goes beyond the scope of the novel (maybe a character study or two, things like that). I don't promise that I won't backtrack to insert, delete, or change portions of the story, but I will always give you guys those changes and try to make it as simple for you to understand their significance as I can.
I admit it, I'm nervous starting this blog. It's a big commitment. I'd be lying if I said that I felt totally prepared. With things like this though, it is oftentimes best to just leap over the edge and hope your carefully made parachute carries you. So, I suppose I'll see you tomorrow with my first 2000 words. Until then.