There are several factors which suggest that this website will never, ever be a success. Facts that speak against the possibility of me gaining faithful friends and fans and making lots of money from advertising. For kicks and giggles, let’s list some, shall we?

  1. Lack of a clear Mission Statement – Seriously, it says that you need one right in the WordPress ‘getting started’ documentation. This site is currently pretty aimless, it’s a bit about this and that and whatever’s on my mind. Successful websites have topics and target audiences.
  2. Lack of a bitter author – I’m not very bitter or angry, and successful web authors usually are. Or at least pretend to be. This is because the Internet is filled with angry and abusive people, I suppose. The point I’m trying to make here is, successful people are asstards.
  3. Lack of original web design – I’m actually planning to make my own design, once I figure all this template business out, but for now, this is a downloaded theme.
  4. Lack of training/talent – Unlike many of the great bloggers of the net,I’m not a professional writer.

I’m sure I could think of more if I took some more time. See, right there’s another one, lack of serious commitment. This seems doomed to failure!

And yet, here I am, writing this anyway. Why? Because I feel like it! And that, right there, is the key to happiness, doing what I feel like, for my own enjoyment and growth. In this case growth of my writing abilities and my web design abilities, hopefully, and on they way I might even accidentally entertain somebody while trying. Who cares about success? I care about fun!

So what will be in this blog? Everything and nothing, the way it should be. Stuff I write, obviously, opinions and fiction. My work on my very own little conworld. Very occasionally, maybe even a word or two about me and what I do and see. In time, a topic might emerge.

My name is Erlend. On the Internet, I usually call myself Obdormio. I’m very nearly twenty years old, I currently study creative writing and game design, and I just paid for twelve months webhosting.

I’d better use this stuff now.

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