It's difficult not to take all this way too seriously. There are so many choices to be made just in getting started: templates, names, titles, locations; these are all things I expect to be stuck with for the forseeable future. This makes choosing all the more difficult because, while I am unlikely to make an actual mistake in this context, I am labeling myself in some particular way from the very beginning.
This, my friends, is exactly how I begin any project, with a stream of metanarrative that may (or may not) provide a gateway to something excellent. Maybe this is just practice, or maybe it's for real, after all, the intent of this project is simply to get me writing, and writing requires the false start now and again. Like I said, it's difficult not to take this all way too seriously.
So I'll begin again.
