Tag: writing

Blogging Fears

Current fears

  • How will this effect my job? My career as a whole?
  • What if people don’t like my writing or what I have to say?
  • What if people think I’m being inauthentic?
  • What if I offend someone?
  • What if this doesn’t bring me joy or peace?

But what if one person likes it? What if it helps one person?

Hello, it’s me.

I’ve been avoiding this little corner of the internet for a while.

But I think it may be time to come back. I’ve been yearning to write.

And not in the way I do at work, finally getting to call myself a copywriter, finally doing what I love for a living. And not in the way I devour journals and am constantly itching for my soft cover, dotted line Moleskine and Precise V5 rolling ball black pens.

I’ve been aching to express myself again. I miss writing for me. I miss seeing my words out in the world.

I keep listening to podcasts about how to be creative, how to get started on your creative project and most of them have been saying the same thing: stop waiting and just do. So for me, I need to just write again. I need to just keep typing until I feel satisfied and then hit publish.

So even though this scares me and even though there are millions of blogs out there… here I am. Typing and typing and typing and hitting publish.

Back in the game

Lately I’ve been on a writing kick. Of course I write for classes all the time, I am a public relations student after all. But I’ve been getting back into the habit of writing for my own benefit. Reading through my old journals have been a big source of inspiration, even though my personal journals contain mostly jumbled thoughts and ramblings. It feels good to open my journal to fresh pages waiting for my ideas.

This blog is the same way. For some reason the blank blog post is scarier than a blank journal… but it still has the same effect as writing in a journal. I’ve started paying more attention to how other writers express themselves as well. Especially journalists in various mediums- newspapers, magazines, online news sources, etc. The more I read, the more I pay attention to the little details.
I have this urge to devour as much information as possible and to read everything. But that’s a good thing, it’ll keep me busy for a while.