On writing your heart out loud
I'm here, ready to write a blog post.
I have no idea what I'm going to write. I just know I want to write something.
In the past, I would have opened a window in Bear, and scribble my initial thoughts, close the window and go about my day until I had something new to add.
Now I'm just here, waiting to hit post on something I have no idea about.
I don't even have a subject. I think it's going to be something like: on having faith the words will come.
It could become something entirely different.
But this is how writing a blog post used to be for me. Not the incessant babbling that I'm reverting to right now, but having a vague idea and then writing about it, checking what I wrote for spelling errors, and then I hit post.
Sometimes I had a whole new idea to add to the post a couple days later, and boom! Next blog post in the pocket.
I transformed into someone who thought about things, who cared more about formatting and keywords than about what she actually had to say.
I kinda hate that person now, because somewhere along the line I lost the faith that words would come. I even didn't blog for over a year, because I thought I had nothing to share.
That's making me sad.
So that's why this blog is so crucial to me. It lets me write and share my thoughts without a filter, without an editor, without criticism.
I'm hitting post before perfectionism kicks in. I'm hitting post before thinking if this fits my theme.
Themes are boring. Writing your heart out is where it's at. I'm loving that in the new / reborn blogosphere. I'm not the only one who writes their heart out.
I'm not the only one who writes their joy.
It's so wonderful to be a part of that!
Oh and, the title, I think it will stick. Or maybe I will think of a better one when I've scrolled up to check for the red wriggly things indicating a typo.
Who knows?
Well, you do, now you've read the post. But I have no idea. And that's so liberating!