Writing a blog post is harder than it looks! Words swirl in my head like white, fluffy puffs off a mature dandelion! Would you believe I started blogging before blogging was a thing? I found my first blog rant recently and it looks like this:
9/20/04
What is this?
Whoa. I have no idea what a blog is.
I deleted that blog after a year.
In 2011, I started again. Twenty posts over three years. I deleted THAT blog!
Determined to put my creativity online, I started another blog in 2015. That year, there were two entries. Can I at least get a shout out for my doggedness to not give up?!
Life gets in the way.
And I wasn’t getting any younger…here’s a post I wrote in that timeframe:
No, I was not practicing my craft. AT ALL.
Remember 2020? What a bombastic year it could have been to be creative! Everything went virtual that year! Alas, I started yet once more in December 2020. I even created and paid for a domain name! Hello. I have a vision and it’s gone nowhere for such a long time!
One post. Each year. For three more years. Will I ever get some momentum going?
YES! THIS IS MY YEAR!
Last fall, I started a little accountability group. I needed my very own scribe tribe. I called myself a writer and I didn’t write! Not even in a journal. (Occasional rants on Facebook don’t count.) I told my little group I was going to start a daily journal again and write every day. When the annual fee posted to my bank account, I told my little group, “Okay, 2024 is my year. I’m going to post at least once a month.”
TA-DA!
My daily journal is half full. And I have published my first entry for 2024! And I have writing buddies spurring me on and making me accountable. I’m so grateful!
This isn’t what I intended to post today, but here you go! It’s just a rant post! I’ll craft a substance post before the end of the month! In fact, I’ve set it on my calendar to do on January 30. Hold me to it!
I just thought I’d put it out there…never give up on your dream. I’m not! More entries forthcoming in 2024!
cynthianurss 
I love your authenticity AND your determination to not give up on your vision 🙌🏼
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Thanks L 💕 I bumped into another blogger at church last night and told her my frustrations. I’ve been challenged because I read somewhere that I need to start my thoughts with an outline and fill in from there. That’s totally not the way I’ve written in the past! I’ve tried three different days and scribbled everything I wrote and started over. I told her I’m used to just sitting down and writing my heart out. She gave me the freedom to do that so that’s coming by Jan 30! 😅
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Awww thanks Andraea!
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