When I converted to gmail blogger assigned me a new account and while I can still access my old one it's been so long since I posted there that I thought "why not start a new writing blog?" A fresh start if you will.
So I am embarking once again into the world of blogging, taking inspiration and courage from friends I've been following for a while and crossing my fingers that I might take more consistently to it this time.
What do I want this blog to be about? [because every successful blog has a mission statement, right? right?]
It's been obvious to me for a long time that my writing suffers when I'm not in a class where I'm motivated by deadlines set by others and writers' groups where I can bounce ideas and borrow others. I've been playing with two stories on and off [more off than on] the last 6 months and I want to take them farther but part of me lacks the motivation and the other part lacks courage. So I suppose this blog is my new attempt to do better, to be more involved in the writing world and to make myself more accountable for my own writing.
I've been reading loads of books this summer and noticing lots of things about character development, plot, and scene painting that I want to take to heart. I'll be sharing some of my thoughts on such subjects here and if you friendly readers have anything to add I would love to hear your ideas. Sharing ideas adds spice to our imaginations and lives where we can sometimes become stagnant in our own heads. Or maybe just I do. Anyway.
A big goal I have with this blog is to be consistent in my posting regardless of whether or not I have a ground-breaking, world-changing epiphany to share in every post. I'm aiming for the modest goal of posting once a week on Tuesday.
Other posts may occasionally appear on Saturdays. My dear friend Chelsea has agreed to form with me our own writers' group and as she has a blog as well we've decided to give each other writing prompts [challenges of sorts], the results of which we'll post on each others blogs on Saturdays. The hope is to do these once a week and we assigned our first one this last Sunday. The challenge: write about the first time we met the other. Chelsea worried that this might be a weird/cliche subject to write on and while it doesn't have much to do with either of our writing projects I'm excited for the exercise and I've already finished a very rough draft that I'm eager to start revising. Memoir writing can be so much fun!
So I hope you'll stick around, join the conversation, and if you want, share some of your own work with us! I don't know about you, but as shy as I am about sharing my writing, I want it to be something more than black marks on wood pulp :)
Sounds like a good idea. Have fun!
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