Day 1: Begin at the Beginning

I think it's time to finally get serious about writing.

So here is this blog. To my real life friends, hello! To my online friends, hello! To anyone else reading this blog I send greetings to as well.

I decided to do this blog project for a bunch of different reasons. (Hopefully it will be a daily thing; if it doesn't turn out that way, I'm not going to beat myself up over it.) I first got the idea of doing a daily project when I heard someone talking about how they did a 365-day photo project of themselves last spring. I thought that was pretty cool, and the person who did it ended up learning a lot about who they were in the process of that project. But I don't have a camera and I don't really take pictures. Then this fall a friend of mine started a photo-a-day thing on Facebook, and I really loved reading about her take on life. Thus is the combined inspiration for this blog. I really just want to explore who I am through writing all of this. I've been writing in a journal/diary for years now, but something like a blog is much more public. That means I have to hone my writing to become somewhat more professional in my musings (though probably not much more at this point).  My twin sis is doing it with me!  Her blog is called Small Words, Big World.

As for the title? Credit for that goes to one of my buddies from deviantART, Lauren, aka SilverInkBlot.  You can read her blog here. (I'm known as doodlergirl on deviantART...if you'd like to check out some of my poetry, pictures, and stories, look for me there!) The word “pamplisest” means any sort of writing material that's been erased and written over on. And if you think about it, the Internet is the ultimate pamplisest. Everything on the internet is so permanent – even if you “erase” it, the most skilled computer techs can find whatever you've posted up. Honestly, though, I just thought it was a cool name.

Let's see how this goes. More to come tomorrow! :)  Oh, and happy new year!