Lifeblogging

I read a lot of blogs. Pretty much every blog than I have ever read is better than this one. I often credit myself as a good writer, but trust me, if you were to see the piles and piles of word documents sitting on my computer at this moment, you would see the true me. The hardest part about trying to be a good writer, is actually letting someone else read the words you are writing (or, in this case, typing). Being a great writer is about letting go of your inner critic and just letting the words flow onto the page, then holding back the desire to push the backspace key (something I'm having a really hard time doing even as I type these words).

As a writer, you want people to see what you're honestly thinking, but at the same time, you don't want to people to think you are a complete idiot. I personally don't understand how some of these writers to do it. On top of all the blogs I read, I am a pretty well-read individual in the realm of books (it's hard to imagine someone actually picking up a bound copy of a book rather than reading a bunch of text on the screen...Amazon Kindle/iPhone anyone?). The more books I read, the more jealous I get of all these writers!!!

How do they do it? How does one overcome their inner critic and let the words flow? Its much easier for me to write well when I'm writing with the intention of never publishing that piece of writing, usually a journal entry of some sort. I hope my writing is being honest enough to pass along my slight sense of frustration. This is actually the third complete piece I have written in the past hour, and its most likely going to be the only one that gets published.

I titled this post "lifeblogging" because its a fitting description for what this blog is supposed to be. I want to keep writing about the world from my perspective. I want people to get a good idea of what goes on in my head on a day-to-day basis. I want people to see things how I see them.

This post is about informing you of a change in direction for this blog (or, more correctly, a re-focus on bringing this blog back to where it was supposed to be going in the first place). This is post is also a warning. Some of these posts may start coming at you in stream-of-consciousness style, because after analyzing some of my own writing, the best writing of mine happens when I just let the words flow straight from my head to my fingers on the keyboard, and not letting myself push the backspace key.

All of that said, take it with a grain of salt. Oh, and this little bit was added after proofreading the top and realizing that 99.9% of my grammar and punctuation was accurate. That never happens. Go me.