This is my first blog post. Ever. Something I mentioned in my first day writing assignment was that I had never written a blog before. I had been tempted to write a blog. I had even been encouraged to write a blog. But I resisted. My personality is very introverted and I have a tendency to hold my cards close to my chest, so I didn't feel comfortable with putting some of my most intimate thoughts on full display for everyone to see. I still don't, really, but I do what I'm told. And I've been told to write a blog.
Now I need to decide where to go from here. Obviously I’ll have to follow the writing prompts as they come up, but I’d like to do more with the blog. Before, when I had an idea that was “blog-worthy,” I usually just dismissed it because it didn’t seem to be worth the trouble of starting a blog to make just one entry. I’ve read several blogs in the past that contained only two or three entries, all written within the first week of being started, with nothing new for months afterward. My mindset is that I want to finish everything I start, but that seems to have the unintended consequence of making me reluctant to start anything I’m not willing to commit to.
I didn’t want to have an embarrassing “empty blog,” so I never started one. Now that I’ve got one anyways, I need to force myself to fill it up. There’s probably not going to be any particular theme to my blog, or at least I’m not planning on anything just yet. Maybe it’ll develop over time. Or maybe not… Maybe I won’t be able to come up with anything, and I’ll wind up so starved of ideas that I spend hours at a time staring blankly at the computer monitor until I go insane. We’ll just have to wait and see.
