Do it write.

A good blog of mine comes around only 2-3 months.  I'll tell you now.  I could write anything, write about anything.  I can tackle a passage of scripture or I can analyze a situation.  It doesn't matter.  I used to write poetry too.  That was big for me in High School.  I used to go to poetry readings at Barnes and Noble, and it was awesome because I wasn't privy to the stuff that I got into later in life like Keruac, Bukowski or E. E. Cummgs, T. S. Elliot.  I kept it real and I kept it interesting.  In that situation ignorance was truly bliss because I had no benchmark, no standard to apply myself to constantly.  It was freeing to know that I had unconditional acceptance amongst the league of crappy other authors and poets.  Occasionally, sponsored writers or guest poets would dive in trying to show us how it was all done, but they were the misfits, because we ran stuff there.  It was great.

Later I got into reading fantasy novels like the Dragonlance books.  Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman showed me the ropes, among other greats like R. A. Salvatore.  I'm sad that I can't write fantasy like I used to, I had a real knack for it.  Full exploration of verbalizing one to one combat and gut wrenching depictions of gore and injuries were my specialty.  I guess my heart left it though, I got in a little too deep with the fantasy stuff... ha!

So why do I tell you all this?  Why do I waste (possibly) my time and your time to flesh out these little glimpses of my past as a writer.  Well, I guess two things are important here:

1.  I never write unless its authentic.  By the way, a good tip for writers is this; I don't mean that if you don't feel like writing you don't write at all.  That's posing, and its undisciplined.  If you sit, write fifty paragraphs and erase them all, paragraph fifty one will be fabulous.  

2.  I can't promise to be a blogger that "regularly updates".  That's one of the tips they give you to increase blog traffic.  Sorry.  That's pressure I just can't handle.  That's something I just don't feel is write.  In as much as writing is intentional, for me it has always been familiar to the analogy of pregnancy and birth.  Writing can't be produced before its time, and something my professor said to our class the other night rang so true; taking the things you want to write about and sitting with them, letting them age.  How sublime!  That's something our culture can't understand.  In our task-obsessed, conquer and fall, done in five minutes world there's no room to let things sit, or let things age; to allow time to perform its due task.  

I could go on and I should go on, but I feel like this is enough for right now.  Keep writing, even if you're not getting it right.  Or write.  Even if no one gets it or you don't get any praise.  Hope this helps.

"Hey look, I'm just a ham and egger."

-Rocky