Real Words

This blog has been quiet for what I feel is way too long. However what I actually know is that it’s been quiet for exactly the right amount of time. The thing about the writing process, when writing is what you do with your life, is that you can’t force it. I do believe that you need to keep on writing all of the time, even when you don’t really feel like it. However I don’t really believe that you can impose a structure on your writing when it’s just not working. At least that is how it’s been in my life. Structure works most of the time. And then there are times when the writing just doesn’t do what you want it to do. I have still been writing all of these months – journaling, writing for my clients – but the writing that I wanted to do on my blogs just didn’t happen. I could force it but there seemed to be little point in doing so. I needed time off to breathe, re-think, re-work, realign myself with my real goals. You can’t force that. You can’t make it come faster than it’s going to come. At least, that’s my opinion insofar as writing that means something personal to me. I could easily just have written posts for the sake of writing them but that wasn’t ever supposed to be the point of this blog.

I am happy to say, however, that I’ve worked out what the point of it is supposed to be and what goals I really want to achieve with it. One of those goals is that I want it to be a place where I write for fun, for pleasure, and not because I feel obligated to. At the same time I don’t want to go months without writing unless I happen to hit another one of those fallow periods when there is nothing to be done but to wait until the writing makes sense again. Having just moved out of one of those periods, I don’t see that happening again. So I am recommitting, slowly, to making sure to post here at least once per week. Maybe more but certainly no less.

A couple of the other things that can be expected on the blog here in the months to come:

• The posts will be focused on writing, my writing projects, my experiences as a writer. Posts on anything else will not be posted here but on my other personal blog, Diary of a Smart Chick.There will be some posts that are about writing in general (top ten lists, links to other writers, etc.) but most will be first person tales about what it’s like to actually live as a working writer and blogger.
• Any photos shown on the blog will either be mine or will let you know who they belong to. I have historically used random google images on all of my blog posts. However in keeping with the spirit of real creativity and the rights that belong to the people who are posting creative works online, I want to make sure that any photos I use either belong to me or link you back to the person they belong to.