I love writing. But I rarely post anything. I might go, weeks even months in-between post. In that amount of time I have come up with dozens of ideas that I would love to write about. The problem that my writing style is usually a rather long slow process, but I am hoping to change that.
In the past write one blog post or even a longer social post would take hours. I nearly always start out with an inspiration for some great article. Often I don’t have time to write it just then. So the idea floats around in my head for a while, often days. Sometimes I write part of it as I think about it. But nothing really happens until I find the time to sit down at my keyboard.
If I am lucky I get done with the first draft in my initial writing. Then my habit is to sit on it for a few hours, or days. My thinking has been that when I come back to it I might see things I didn’t originally and there by improve it with the second draft. I would often do this two or three times, until it seemed nearly perfect.
For me that meant it said what I wanted to say in a way that I felt expressed not just the ideas but the emotions and feeling. As I said I love writing, a big part of that is the craft of morphing the post into this beautiful state of self expression.
But all of that takes time, so much time that I rarely post anything. So as much as I love writing I don’t do that much of it, which is frustrating. Especially when I have all of these great ideas in m head wanting to be expressed.
So I have decided to try something new, give you all my first drafts. That is to say not work on a single post for hours, but to simple write, do a quick review and post it. Of course this might mean the quality of the writings of my posts might go down a bit. But I am hoping over time I will learn to write better faster.
I guess my biggest concern in this is that I might forget to add things that I would normally catch in my second or third draft. That and the possibility of not expressing my emotions and feelings as well as I would like. But I am hoping that too will improve as I do this more. Maybe it takes me so long to write a single post because I do it so infrequently. Maybe if I am doing it more often I will get better, well that is what I am hoping will happen.
So, at least at first, some of my post might not be as good as they used to be. There might be things I forgot or didn’t make that clear. Please feel free to ask questions in the comments.
Finally if you have gotten this far with me, is another change. I am not always going to post in social about my blog posts. In the past I nearly always did that. But that too add to how long it takes to write something, especially when I feel I need to explain something in the social post.
So if you want to keep up with my writing and what all is going on with me please subscribe to my blog. I am hoping to get some thing out at least once a week. Some may be rather short, but they should all be meaningful.
