Today is March 4, 2009. It has been 26 days since I began this blog, and I have written exactly zero posts since that original submission. What does that say about me being a writer? Hmmm.
Let me address the subject of excuses for a moment:
Excuse 1) I would be completely honest in saying that the last month has probably been on of the most--if not the absolutely most--stressful months of my life. In addition to some very challenging personal and home-life issues, I am in the midst of starting a new career as a voice actor. I certainly have had numerous reasons to be occupied by things besides maintaining a blog. The flipside of this coin is that I have also had some amazing things to write about, but have chosen to either ignore those topics or focus on other activities.
Excuse 2) I am a bit of a perfectionist about my creative endeavors. I want everything I do to be "the best" -- whatever that means. When it comes to writing, I have an incredible myriad of criteria to analyze my writing by, from purely grammatical issues to how well-written or humorous or entertaining or deeply meaningful a particular submission is. How could I post anything that isn't perfect? Maybe someone will think it's amateurish, or uninteresting, or--heaven forbid--badly edited! The result of this is that I so easily get bogged down worrying about whether whatever I intend to write will be worth reading that I often never get around to writing in the first place.
So what to do... Well, it seems to me that I need to take my own advice. In my first post I quoted Pearl S. Buck. Part of the quote read, "Your mind must know it has got to get down to work." It seems I need to stop worrying about whether my writing will be anygood, or what other pursuits I can get distracted by, and just write.
So that is what you get today. I just sat down and started writing. I don't think this is particularly interesting, and I don't expect anyone else out there will either, but it is words on a page, and that is good enough for now. Tomorrow I will write again, and we'll just see what happens. Until then...
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