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!