OK, I didn’t get far on this blog before letting it languish. I started with all sorts of great intentions and grand visions of daily blog entries filled with humorous, insightful, entertaining, moving, memorable writing. I had great intentions, but not much of a plan. I wasn’t sure what exactly it was that I would write about. I just figured that ideas would come to me out of the blue and make the writing easy. That didn’t happen. I just don’t have as much material that I want to share as I thought I would.
I think that a big part of the problem is that I need to be more open. I am normally very happy keeping my thoughts to myself. That is exactly the opposite of what I need to do to succeed as a writer! The best writers seem to open themselves up and pour their being into their work. I find it very difficult to do that. It’s not that I don’t have observations, emotions, and stories to tell, it’s just that now that I am presented with an easy way to make my thoughts public I find that I am a more private person than I had realized!
Now that I have learned something new about myself I can begin the process of change. Sailing into the sunset is easier work than personality reconstruction. More to come soon…