“The first step.” That was all I was going to leave on my first post but after my third draft decided it wasn’t good enough and would have defeated the purpose of this blog – which is to write more. Write more versus what I do now, which is don’t write. I like to think about writing and to come up with story ideas but I haven’t written anything. I haven’t been able to muster up the discipline to write stories but I love to write outlines for stories. Dozens of outlines probably, all stored away in a folder labeled “projects” in my computer. There they lay dormant, only to be disturbed when I look at them once a year then get depressed over the fact that I never followed through with any of them. Until now. Unless I’m held accountable it won’t happen. Maybe because I’m lazy or I’m not confident with my skills but for one excuse or another I don’t make time for writing. All I have is dreams, wishes and these ideas trying to claw their way out of my head. A curse I’ve had since I was a boy.
This blog shall be my weekly challenge to develop my writing and creative muscles, which have suffered atrophy since whenever my last creative writing class was in high school. Over time I’d like to share my weekly stories about my progress with writing and further down the road my actual stories. I understand it won’t happen over night, but at least today, I’m one step closer to my goal.
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