Thoughts & A Photo Of Warmer Days

I can’t tell but things are either moving very slowly or very quickly over at the main site (written-whispers.com). I have several half written posts, a stock pile of ideas, and a few completed things that are just waiting to go up but I’m still holding back- my progress stuttering along because I have absolutely no idea where I stand with this. I do and I don’t.

I was reading a blog by a new friend the other day where he spoke about he felt being the new blogger on the block so to speak. His blog is about blogging for money, not the usual read for me but it caught my attention in the ‘oh, shiney object’ sort of way. He wrote about how he often felt he didn’t have the credentials or the right to write about what he was writing about- not sure I even worded that right but you get my point. He’d been having some trouble with other ‘blogging gurus’ who were giving him guff because he wasn’t as ‘experienced’ as they were.

It hit close to home some thoughts I’ve had on and off since I decided to go through with the whole idea of running a website ‘about’ writing. I don’t have any certificates, I’m not a teacher, hell, I’m not even published yet unless you count self publishing but- I am a writer and I’m writing about being a writer and all the things I found helpful and I thought others should know. I don’t need any credentials for that but the thing is… unlike this other blogger I don’t have -any- substantial feedback which in it’s own way makes me even more insecure than having people put me down.

At least that I can fight against, lol. Not knowing where I stand is a bit different. You can’t get better if you don’t know what’s wrong. Right?

Anyways, this is just a tiny rant to help me process some thoughts on the matter. I need to make myself put up all my posts that I have saved up but I keep wanting to give my other posts a chance to be seen and another tiny part of me is still finding the balance between this half of WW and the other. On the one end I’m trying to appear professional- you know, the hope that I’m giving the impression I know what I’m talking about and on the other end, here, I’m just being me. Sometimes my posts and thoughts fall between ‘about writing’ and about ‘myself as a writer’ but I think, or I hope, I’m starting to get the idea.

Anyways, please stop by and leave me some feedback sometime on the main site, you can find the link about or just take the /blog off the url in your browser. I don’t care if it’s bad feedback, like I typed a second ago- can’t get better if I don’t know what’s wrong so tell me, please. Be harsh, I won’t break. :)

By the way, that’s a photo I took during one of my road trips last summer. It’s beautiful isn’t it? If you look carefully, just beneath the coloring of the sunset you can see two cranes on the shore.

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