Hi everyone!

Welcome to my new (and first-ever) blog. I am so excited to have it up and running after a few weeks of dealing with the learning curve of web design (The date is actually October 19, 2014) . I think it looks pretty spiffy. Not bad for a first-timer, eh? If you have any suggestions for how to make my blog a little more functional and attractive, then please feel free to leave a comment. I’m learning, so please be kind 🙂

Anyway, I have wanted to start a blog for a long time now, maybe a couple of years or so. I just didn’t know what I would blog about. Politics was a suggestion, but I don’t believe I can speak as an authority on this topic. Plus, I think it would turn ugly pretty fast. I considered criminology, as that was my major in college. Still, I felt like after a while I would run out of things to talk about. I thought about writing about writing, as it is one of my hobbies, but I feel like there are so many blogs of this nature out there, and I wanted to give something new to the world.

Then, it came to me.

It’s my blog, so I’m going to discuss what I like, not just what makes sense (Because, let’s be honest, most things that make sense are pretty boring). Anyone who knows me well enough knows about my long-standing obsession with unicorns. It’s a thing, yeah. Blame Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn if you want to blame anything. I also geek out (in a major way) over George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, along with the HBO show, of course. Additionally, I am in love with the works of Brian Froud, the conceptual artist behind Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. All of these things make me incredibly happy.

So I thought to myself: What do they all have in common?

Well, the answer was simple enough: Fantasy.

I have had a life-long love affair with the fantasy genre, but I didn’t know it until just recently. What better subject to discuss on a blog than one I am totally enthralled with and yet somewhat inexperienced in? I say ‘inexperienced’, because I haven’t yet read important works such as Lord of the Rings or the entirety of the Harry Potter series. I know, I know, I’m working on it. I also don’t have a degree in this stuff, like some may have. But really it seems the fantasy genre is as old as time. Humans have always enjoyed telling stories that include spectacular adventures and mythical creatures. I could write about this stuff forever, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading about it from my point of view every now and then.

This blog is going to be a bit of a hybrid- in that it is going to include topics such as literature, film, music, food, events, travel, fashion, and beauty (Hey, I may even throw in a bit of D.I.Y.). Still, any post I make will have something to do with fantasy. I chose the name for the blog, Fanciful Quill, intentionally. I may delve into Science Fiction or Horror occasionally, because, to be honest, I was raised on Star Wars and Stephen King. Sorry, not sorry.

Mostly, I am interested in the human capacity for Imagination.

If this is something you are also interested in, then I suggest you check back often (Like once a week, because I’m not a machine).

Fancifully Yours,

Jess