I admit, for me it is not always an easy task to come with something to write about. Most of the time, I need a little inspiration to get the ideas flowing. Inspiration can and has come from a variety of sources. It could come from a general situation or an observation I made. It also most certainly can come from a specific person. Many people have been unwitting muses for me. A lot of them good and positive. A few of them, well, let’s just create a category and call them a venting muse. In other words, they inspire me to write out my frustration and grievance instead of, you know, confronting them.
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A New Shift
I started this little blog at the end of March 2011. At that time, the primary purpose of my blog was to serve as an outlet for my writing. I am the person that always had these little pieces of paper everywhere I went with thoughts written down. This seemed to be a natural course even though I didn’t really understand what I wanted to say. I just knew I had something to say. And to be honest, I thought I had something so worth saying that people were going to love my writing.
Continue readingMy masterpiece
There was a good stretch of a few years, that I had a daily goal to write 20 minutes a day. It was mostly fluff stuff but it was still something I actually did. A goal I actually accomplished and me and goal fulfillment has not always been a thing. I filled up a couple of small thought notebooks and probably shared most of my writings on this blog. Then one day, I stopped writing in my little book on a daily basis. Mainly because I didn’t feel like I was improving any so why bother? One day became two which became a week, a month, and a few months without writing daily. I just don’t write things down like I used to. I would not declare it a tragic loss but rather just life moving downstream with different goals and agendas prioritized.
Continue readingStory behind the Post: The Christmas Dinner
December was a 5-Saturday month which meant another 5-part short story on my little blog. The premise of the story came to me in the form of a Chevy commercial. I had been toying with a similar idea for some time that never materialized. But after watching the ad on social media, my own thought began to sprout.
Continue readingHappy Anniversary to me!
Yesterday, I celebrated my tenth anniversary writing my little blog. It is now my second longest commitment I’ve ever undertaken (my first being my current job that beat it by four years). While it may not be an impressive blog to you, the fact that I am still here is pretty impressive to me. I don’t always stick to things so way to go, self!
Continue readingNo more words
It’s that time of year. I evaluate my little blog and decided if I want to continue. To be honest, I have never experienced a writer’s block for this long before. Perhaps, the condition is permanent? Continue reading
Zero Likes
Twitter Followers
I’m not suave about social media. For me, it’s definitely a love-hate relationship with it all. I declare with loud voice how much I’d like to do away with it all but then I seem to be the first to like a status or post on Facebook. Ugh. Somehow I also ended up on Twitter so now I have two accounts that I feel the need to share on. This is way too much sharing for one boring person. Continue reading
Every word written
I write every day for at least 20 minutes. Or, at least, I set aside 20 minutes a day to write. Sometimes there’s a tad more day dreaming or Facebooking than actual writing. At any rate, I fill up little notebooks fairly quickly at that rate. I usually go through those notebooks to fill up this blog. I figure as long as I have thoughts written down in the books I’ll keep up this blog even though I don’t get a lot of views. Sometimes when I go to the books to fill in my little blog the pickins are a bit slim. Not every thought is worth sharing. Continue reading
The Ascension
Here are a couple of assumptions for this piece:
- Most of us have room for improvement even with our most skilled abilities and talents.
- With the exception of a few prodigies most of us better ourselves line upon line, grace by grace. We may show a flair or talent for a particular skill or ability but every person ascends up a particular path with experience.
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