Life, Laughter, Love...and Shiny Objects
I am scared. To write. Even though it is the very thing that gives me life and makes me breathe deeper breaths. It centers me. It grounds me.
Unraveling can happen. Layers peeled back. Writing is like watering. It gives life and opens me up like a flower’s bloom, which has closed upon itself when rooted in dry and barren soil. And although the revealing is the place I am most comfortable residing, it is also the place that strips me of my armor and leaves me standing there, naked.
Let me tell you all about the glamorous life of an anxious writer. On a deadline. Are you sure you’re ready for it? I don’t want you to have a serious case of “envy”. So prepare yourself. If you missed out on yesterday’s post, let me fill you in. I signed up for not one, but […]
Bless it. The curse and the blessing of being an overachiever has overcome me. I have signed up for both NaNoWriMo AND NaBLoPoMo because I don’t want end up with FOMO. Huh? NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month NaBloPoMo = National Blog Post Month FOMO = Fear of Missing Out Doing one of these things […]
Day 30 of National Blog Posting Month (NABloPoMo). You know what that means, right? I’m DONE! Finished! Finito! For now anyway. This is a big deal to me. Because writing and publishing work, every day, for 30 days straight is hard work. Which you’ve already heard me whining about in previous posts. The big deal […]
Writing is hard. Writing your life’s stories? Even harder. Because it requires you show up and bare your soul, at the cost of potential criticism and disapproval. And so this summer, when I was at a blogging conference and felt disapproval from peer bloggers. I almost quit writing. For good. As mentioned in yesterday’s post, […]
Yesterday, the prompt for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) was this: What is the most controversial thing you’ve ever written on your blog? What compelled you to write it? And as per usual, I don’t always write based on the daily prompt, and when I do, it’s not usually on the actual day I was supposed to. […]
This. Because it’s NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month) and I am supposed to string a whole bunch of amazing words together, that make some kind of sense, every single day for the ENTIRE month of November. Whaaat? So now, it’s day six. I am supposed to be writing. And in theory I feel like I […]
Today is the day. The day I’ve been planning. The day I’ve been waiting for. The day I declare it. No, I don’t feel ready, but I’m doing it anyway. No matter how scary, how impossible it seems. No matter how out there this dream feels. Today is the day I declare my new job. […]
It’s hard to believe that 38 posts and 38 days ago, I created this stretch goal for myself to take time every night to do what I love to do. Write. I knew the goal would be challenging. I knew it would be a stretch. That was the intention. To force myself to take time […]
