The Eyes of the World

The eyes of the world descended upon him as he sat alone in the coffee shop, his face looking down at the plain table vacantly. His very will sapped and sipping a cup of coffee that tasted too bitter. His anger was washed away by tears of sorrow. All around him, life went on and on and there was nothing to connect him to the strangers that chatted and drank coffee. Nothing that he knew of.

And thus, he sat alone. Alone and always alone.

The man with the pain and weight upon his heart.

Good Evening

Hello there, eWorld. My name is Kevin Woodside and I am a blogger. This is far from my first blog, but it's something quite different from the others I maintain. What other blogs do I maintain? Well, let's go in chronological order here . . .

Since 2003, I've maintained a blurty. A blurty is a lot like LiveJournal, but stripped down and more Emo-tastic. Not that I'm very Emo, but I've come to appreciated it's simplicity. My blurty is where I talk about my personal life -- my problems, my successes, my family, my friends. Yadda yadda yadda. You get the point.

I also have a LiveJournal, which has since been retro-fitted to being a respository for old Fanfiction. He-Man fanfiction, if you can believe that. BELIEVE IT! A nerd, I am.

Furthermore, I have DA Journal (Deviant Art), which I up-date from time to time.

Finally . . . there's the Uncanny X-Periment, in which I have reviewed every single issue of Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, and X-Treme X-Men (as well as key issues in the X-Franchise). I'm up-dating from a back-log of entries now.

Anyways, so if you're reading this and wondering why in the world I would launch yet another blog, I most certainly have an answer for you.

I'm a writer. I'm not the best writer, but after a long "career" in fanfiction and with the aforementioned Uncanny X-Periment coming up-to-date, I've decided to launch this blog in the hopes of being a little more . . . er, professional? Don't get me wrong, I love my blurty, but at the end of the day, I can't really provide a recap of what I got for Christmas as a legitimate writing sample. If I want to be a writer, I need to show off what I have.

What's the big difference between this and my blurty? Other than what I mentioned all ready, I don't want this blog to be just about me. I want this to be about something more than just how my day was or how awesome St. Patrick's Day was. I want this to count.

Now, again, this isn't discounting any of my other blogs. I'm very proud of the fanfiction I created (and still kinda create, but that's neither here nor there) and I hope that when I'm 80 years old, I still an e-mail telling me how much it was enjoyed.

It's just time for me to sharpen my tools.

This blog will contain random stories. Maybe a serial story, maybe just a snippet, maybe even a webcomic. I may write about religion and politics. I'll probably comment here and there on popular culture. Don't be surprised to find a review of something.

My hope is to up-date this as much as possible. Whether it's just a random idea or an all-out story, it'll be here. With my life as crazy busy as it is, I want to make my writing count. Putting this out there for all of you should hopefully do me some good.

I suppose I should wrap it up. For those of you that have stuck around past the initial 2-5 seconds that it takes a website to hold your interest, I appreciate it and I sincerely hope you return.

I'm certain there's at least one person out there wondering about the name of this blog. I'm not sure if it'll stick, but "Woodsidian" is a term a buddy of mine came up with after I wrote sentimentally about a drunken party. "Filled with the typical Woodsidian sentiment."

So, there's that.