What this Blog is.

I'm an aspiring novelist. Which means I'm a writer that would love to be published one day, but I know that I have a lot of work to do. As someone who mainly focuses on my novels any short stories or poetry usually gets pushed to the side and forgotten about. So this site is dedicated to those bits of fiction I come up with when I'm taking a break from my novel.
At times I get this awesome idea for a short story, write it, perfect it, and toss it in a drawer somewhere. Same for my poetry. I figured why not share it on a blog. This way I can receive feedback from all of you on where you think my writing could use improvement. There's nothing that you can say to me that I probably haven't thought already, but I appreciate fresh points of view. I would appreciate harsh criticism. I highly doubt anyone is harsher than myself.
With that said I'll tell you what I tend to write. When I write poetry it's usually because I'm caught up in some emotion. So if I was really inspired by a song at church you may get a really spiritual poem. On the other hand there are times I write poetry in anger and those usually involve blood. My short stories vary. Most of my short stories will have an obvious christian message, but there will be times I need to just have fun. Those times you might read some fantasy or if I'm a tad annoyed some horror.
I would also like to mention that I had a relative who wrote a lot of short stories that were never really published. I'll be posting her stuff as well. If I'm focusing on my novel I'll post one of her stories for all of you to read. I haven't read all of them so many of them I'll be reading as I post.
I hope you all enjoy my future posts and I hope I can post something for you real soon!