I Take Up My Pen

My dear readers,

It is my pleasure, upon this first occasion of setting quill to paper for your particular benefit, to inform you that our correspondence has this day begun in earnest. I know not which of you shall chance upon these lines — friend, stranger, or curious passer-by — but I bid you welcome all the same, and I hope you shall find what follows agreeable to your taste.

I mean to write to you as I would to my own dear sister: plainly, and without undue ceremony, though I trust not without some small charm. These letters shall serve as a record of our little workshop's doings — its improvements, its modest triumphs, and, I daresay, the occasional folly confessed and mended.

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I must also, dear readers, take this occasion to acquaint you properly with the establishment from which I write. Unblockifier is, in the truest sense, a house built for those who labor at the writing of novels: a quiet room furnished with every implement a novelist might require: a place to set down one's chapters, to keep faithful account of one's characters and their doings, and to summon, when the muse proves shy, a measure of gentle and considered assistance.

It is my sincere hope that this workshop shall prove a comfort to all who take up residence within it, and that these letters shall keep you pleasantly informed of its continued improvement. Until I write again, I remain, as ever,

Your most faithful correspondent.