Letters, Words, Pages

So many things have changed since I started this blog, and then proceeded to neglect it into becoming some meaningless blip in cyberspace. I won't now, and likely never will begin to explain what happened between then and now. I will simply say that I've traveled from the west coast to the east coast, and back again, and I am accordingly changed. So now, I attempt to pick up the puzzle of letters, find a place for them within the words, transform those words into cohesive sentences, and from there move on.

I've stopped doing most web content writing, I take the occasional freelance job if it's something I think I'll enjoy. For a long time I stopped writing altogether, unsure if I had any stories left to tell.

As I sit here mulling over the hundreds of files, with starts, stutters, and moments of brilliance coupled with moments of unadulterated trash I can still see the promise of something to come.

So for now I'll consider this my, perhaps last, attempt at doing what I think I am supposed to do. This time however, I will not quit until things are finished, regardless of how long they take. I will summon up the courage, squash the fearful little girl voice that keeps screaming you can't, and submit things, knowing that rejection is just a part of the process and that even the best authors have rejection letters. I will stop worrying about what comes out as long as something does, letters into words, words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, paragraphs into pages.

What I will also do, is read more and worry less that I am going to somehow against my own will and intellect accidentally copy someone's style or ideas. I will read whatever I happen to want even if it is in the same field or genre I'm working in at the time.

--Goodnight.