I have been playing Starcraft II off and on since beta and it's one of those games I really want to be good at. 
 
More importantly, it's a game I feel i CAN be good at through practice. At the top of my game I was in Platinum and fairly confident in my skills, not Korea-good, but respectable. However, for the last few months I've been up at school where a busy schedule and shitty internet has limited my time with SCII to....well, none since the summer. My skills have deteriorated, my league fallen into silver and my skills fallen into memory. I still watch my favorite casters, but haven't had the time to invest to get back into the game. But I'm off for winter break for the next few weeks and want to get back into the game I have been watching from afar for the last few months. 
 
During beta I mained Protoss and I gradually became pretty proficient with Terran post-launch. However, for this re-learning of Starcraft I'm going to try something different.
 
That's right. I'm going Zerg, bitches.
 
Zerg has always been my favorite race to watch in pro matches, both aesthetically and strategically. The way that race works is super interesting to me, despite the fact that I've never really played it much at all (mostly due to the fact that anytime I tried I felt overwhelmed and just went back to my comfortable Terran or Protoss).
 
So for the next few weeks I'm going to be playing a lot of SCII, exclusively as Zerg. I'll chronicle each match, what went wrong, what went right, and what I've learned from it on each new entry. 
 
If anyone has any tips, comments, advice, or wants to join me on this creep-laced journey, post 'em below.
 
Also, if anyone wants to go for a sparring match to test your mettle against my furious Zerg, I'd be more than up for it.
 
DrStoked#659

I have been playing Starcraft II off and on since beta and it's one of those games I really want to be good at. 
 
More importantly, it's a game I feel i CAN be good at through practice. At the top of my game I was in Platinum and fairly confident in my skills, not Korea-good, but respectable. However, for the last few months I've been up at school where a busy schedule and shitty internet has limited my time with SCII to....well, none since the summer. My skills have deteriorated, my league fallen into silver and my skills fallen into memory. I still watch my favorite casters, but haven't had the time to invest to get back into the game. But I'm off for winter break for the next few weeks and want to get back into the game I have been watching from afar for the last few months. 
 
During beta I mained Protoss and I gradually became pretty proficient with Terran post-launch. However, for this re-learning of Starcraft I'm going to try something different.
 
That's right. I'm going Zerg, bitches.
 
Zerg has always been my favorite race to watch in pro matches, both aesthetically and strategically. The way that race works is super interesting to me, despite the fact that I've never really played it much at all (mostly due to the fact that anytime I tried I felt overwhelmed and just went back to my comfortable Terran or Protoss).
 
So for the next few weeks I'm going to be playing a lot of SCII, exclusively as Zerg. I'll chronicle each match, what went wrong, what went right, and what I've learned from it on each new entry. 
 
If anyone has any tips, comments, advice, or wants to join me on this creep-laced journey, post 'em below.
 
Also, if anyone wants to go for a sparring match to test your mettle against my furious Zerg, I'd be more than up for it.
 
DrStoked#659

Zerg is so damn different from every other race mechanically from a macro perspective that I respect you for making a huge jump over there. I just can't play Zerg, its so damn macro intensive.

Good luck bro, interested to see your updates. From what I know (I don't play zerg) the economic aspect is really different from the other 2 races, due to larvae management/the balance between making units and making drones, etc. As with all advice, I always defer to Day9, cause he's the smartest caster/advice giver I know of. 
 
edit- from what I can tell, as long as you're not going for timing pushes/early rushes the correct answer is to pretty much always be making drones until you HAVE to make units, and you'd find that out by scouting. Not really sure of timings, I'd just recommend experimentation.

I'm interested in reading this as well. I'm sure Zerg will be an absolute change of pace for you and it'd be nice to see how you adapt to it via blogs. 
 
I'm down to get some matches with you (I just bought the game today actually!) but give me a few weeks or so to get my bearings and learn the nuances of the game (my experience with SC2 is basically just when I play at a friend's house which add up to maybe an hour total of gametime).

" Good luck bro, interested to see your updates. From what I know (I don't play zerg) the economic aspect is really different from the other 2 races, due to larvae management/the balance between making units and making drones, etc. As with all advice, I always defer to Day9, cause he's the smartest caster/advice giver I know of.  edit- from what I can tell, as long as you're not going for timing pushes/early rushes the correct answer is to pretty much always be making drones until you HAVE to make units, and you'd find that out by scouting. Not really sure of timings, I'd just recommend experimentation. "

I love Zerg, but it's difficult multi-tasking to spawn larvae, spread creep, muta harass, and tech all at the same time. But it's a hell of a lot of fun. Bit of advice, muta harass should also be a muta scout, which will let you know what to tech to.

I would be supporting this - up until I saw the point in your post where you said Macroing with Terran and Toss is easier? Ha. Hahahahahahaha

Macroing drones and getting minerals or gas is probaly easier with Zerg. But spending all the minerals like Terran and Protoss can is probaly harder. Anyway it's a fun race if you play the game for fun and enjoy playing Zerg you won't regret it.

yeah i tried briefly to get into the race but couldn't do it :( I'll stick with toss

Yo, you got balls, son! 
 
This experiment seems cool, Zerg is the most intimidating race to play imo. It seems like there are a ton of different aspects to have in mind, other than the "make pylons, make probes"  mindset of the other races. Larvae injects seems super key to playing Zerg. And the fact that you use these larvae to make workers and attacking units. 
 
I'll definitely be following this experiment.

I would've added you as a friend for some practice matches but you're on the US server so that's not an option unfortunately. Instead, I'll drop my learning resources off here in order to help a fellow Zerg player.
 
Streams:
Mr. Bitter's stream. He's a 3k+ Zerg player who's actively trying to get better and has had numerous paid coaching sessions with the gosucoaching people(INControl, Machine) He streams these coaching sessions live and also saves them as VOD's for later.I'd definately recommend watching those coaching sessions, they've helped me immensely.
 http://www.livestream.com/mrbitter
  
 Link to Mr Bitter's coaching VOD's: 
http://mrbitter.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

Magulina's stream. He's a high-level European Zerg player (3k+) and plays alot. Also plays in alot of tournaments. 
  http://www.livestream.com/magulina 
 
ROOTCatz's stream. ROOTCatz is also a very high level Zerg player, but his style is very interesing. He's very cheesy and creative as Zerg, which is a very rare style to see for a Zerg.
  http://www.livestream.com/rootcatz 
 
 Teamliquid forum articles and usefull threads: 
The Zerg FAQ:  http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=171315
The Art of ZvT:  http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=176625 
ZvP Dimage Style:  http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=150899 
ZvP Sheth's Guide(older but still somewhat useful): http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=133023 
General guide about Zerg Macro(pretty basic stuff, but still good):  http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=164060 
How to more efficiently inject your larvae(couldn't get it to work, but saved it for when I'm able to change hotkeys): http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=172248 
Zerg Observations:  http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=140800 
 
I've got more, but it's generally out of date. Just pay attention to the Teamliquid forums and look out for good threads.
 
Also Liquipedia link on Zerg build orders:
 http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Zerg_Strategy 
 
You can use YABOT to test/practice build orders: 
http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/yabot/ 
 
And I'm always repping Day9, because he's awesome. You should already have him bookmarked and if you don't you shouldn't have any problems finding him.
 
Hope it helps and keep us updated on how you're doing!

On a reverse note, Zerg is the only race I find myself completely comfortable with. Granted, I play random now to force me to learn the ins and outs of other races, but I have the most success when Zerg comes up as the race to play. I've always been a macro player, so Zerg's style fits me perfectly. A tip I learned from watching tons of casts, you always want to be one hatchery above your opponent's command centers/nexuses.

Have been wanting to get into SCII. Wasn't very good at Brood Wars, but never had the time to practice at it. But when I was always Zerg, so I have a bit of understanding on the race. I'll definetly be following this.

Thanks to everyone for the support and input to this little project of mine. 
 
made a new post about my first few matches 
 
it be here