Themeattics

The Official Website of Tom Keaten

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

This site is garbage.

I know it, you know it. This is my first foray into WordPress – I have no idea what I’m doing. I was in a rush to get something out on a deadline. I’m drowning in past-due tasks. It’s bad. Sloppy. Bright. Horrendously simple.

But it’s live.

It is, in its own way, my first step toward doing. Toward being. How many years have I wanted to be an author? Probably close to two dozen. What do I have to show for it? Nothing but hundreds of thousands of unpublished, mostly secret words tucked away somewhere in this musky, dank, horror-show of an attic. Those, and now, this. Something with some light on it. A bit of visibility. A step forward.

The necessary cleanup will happen. Believe me, I’ve already got a list a mile long for where to start. A little bit of content here, some recoloring there, certainly a new main font. Themes. Polish. These things take time. Time that I can spend – will spend – now that you wonderful people have taken the first steps up here. Don’t let the disheveling scare you. It’s an attic, this is what happens when it stays neglected for so long.

Hand me that dust rag. I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.

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