Can I Make This Work?

About me

My name is Scott Meyer and I am a writer.  I woke up today and all I could think about was writing.  I said to myself: "it's about time."  I've tried being many other things, but writing is what I always come back to.  I admit I've been putting it off.  Too many other things absorbing my attention.  Too worried about what other people will think about my writing.  Too much a perfectionist.  Trying too hard to come up with that one BIG IDEA that will make me famous.  Maybe I really don't need one.
So I started with facebook, figured it was the best way to let people know I was still alive.  I've lost a lot of friends over the years simply because I didn't keep up with them and I don't want to lose any more.  Maybe I can actually get back in touch with some older ones.  I was actually surprised at how many friends I have already.  Well, most are relatives so far but there are a few old friends I'm glad to hear from.
I need to mention that I'm engaged to be married.  Her name is Melissa and this past year has been the best year of my life because of her.  She's also the reason I had to move far away, though not so far that I can't visit my friends occasionally.  Because of her, also, I'm motivated to try to get back in touch with all my old friends.  I think I'll find I have more friends than I realized.

About the title 

My best friend for years was my cousin Ryan.  As anyone who knows me will tell you, I have ADD.  I tend to space out, thinking about something miles away.  Ryan always used to say I was "off in Scottland" when I wasn't paying attention.  I think it's a good title.

Why blog?

I know, I know, I'm late getting into the game.  For someone who loves technology as much as I do I've always been behind when getting into things.  Mostly, it's because I've never really had the money to be truly state-of-the-art.  I want to be an early adopter, but what if the tech I choose turns out to be the wrong one?  I still have my first mp3 player, but it's broken now.  It came with an actual 20G laptop hard drive which was supposed to mean that my music would be eternal.  Of course, it used a file system that was completely incompatible with any other in existence.  So now I have all this music on a broken device that I can't retrieve.  Maybe it's better that I'm not such an early adopter.
Anyways, I'm sorry to say, this blog isn't for you, dear reader.  It's for me.  I've had so many ideas over the years about things I was going to write: essays, stories, what have you.  I've never completed anything.  So maybe if I do have an audience I'll be more likely to finish things.  Here's hoping.

More about me

So I'm going to pretend that my audience doesn't know anything about me.  I was born at a very young age (I'm also a lousy comedian).  I started reading and writing soon after.  I'm an avid role-playing gamer and for years I've been keeping a series of "journals" about my character and the characters of the other players.  I should start calling it an "adventure log" or something.  I like taking on the personalities of other people, especially people more interesting than me.  If my fellow players have different opinions of me than they did in the past, I can only hope they remember the journals.
It actually didn't start with me, it started with Bob and his character "Mouse."  Bob liked to keep a character journal and send it out via email to the other players.  At the time I was playing an illiterate half-orc fighter named Vaarg (we were playing with Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Ed rules, 3rd Ed hadn't come out yet so it wasn't necessary to be a barbarian to be illiterate).  Vaarg had an interesting backstory that I made up as I went along involving his mother and how she had been captured and raped (and ultimately killed) by orcs.  I invented a diary that she had left behind and which Vaarg wanted to be able to read.  So Vaarg learned to read and became a scholar and started keeping a journal of his own.  Unfortunately, many of those journal entries were lost because I didn't save my emails, but it led to the other players creating journals of their own.  Everyone's now moved on to other characters, other game settings, but I always wanted to take what we wrote and publish an adventure story about our little party.  I even wrote a partial script for a comic book.  Just another project I never finished, but maybe I can find the motivation to finish it now.
Anyways, that's me, or most of me at any rate.  I'll be writing more about me eventually but for now that's all I really wanted to say.