I chilled Friday night, (no pun intended because the cold winds pushed on my doors and the snows tapped my windows, telling me to plow and shovel again. At which I said no). I must admit, as I am getting older, I enjoy chilling more than I did a few years ago and the best part is I don’t feel guilty about it.
So chilling out and feeling the need for some sort of warm comfort food, I, in a corning-ware baking dish with a lid, added ½ cup of uncooked corkscrew veggie pasta to a pint of my homemade spaghetti sauce with a generous sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, and mixed it all together. Then put it in the oven at 325 degrees, and let it cook while I did barn chores.
After finishing chores, around 5 PM, entering the house, the aroma of the spaghetti sauce and Parmesan warmed my senses. I took off my boots, and snow attire, and slipped in to my jogging pants. I ate green olives with tomato basil hummus over the top, as a type of salad, watched the news and when my pasta was ready, I put the movie Julie/Julia on, curled up in my green lounger, ate pasta, drank tea, and watched the movie.
It was a very good movie and I enjoyed it, however, now I am jealous. No not from the fabulous cooking, (who needs Julia when I had my own concoction of pasta and spaghetti sauce made from tomatoes picked out of my garden,) but my green-eyed monster reared its ugly green head, because of Julies blogging ability.
Sulking in my green skin, I asked myself, why can't I write something every day, so intriguing, that millions of people would want to read it ...Everyday. Why can’t I draw people in with my words such as her…what is it that I am missing, or lacking in my writing other than…eh-hem… good grammar ability.
Ok, so I wasn’t really, jealous, jealous, just a bit envious. Which isn’t good either, because haven’t I heard somewhere in my upbringing, being envious is a sin too? Oh well, who cares, all I know is I want people to love my writing and I want that ability to write something people will want to read, Every day… dam it!
Watching the movie more, one message I got, is in order to get followers you need to blog every day. You need to tell it like it is. You need to bare your soul.
I do bare my soul, well kind of, but I don’t blog every day. It’s like buying a lottery ticket, if you don’t buy one you will never win. In blogging if you don’t put you and your heart out there everyday…the followers will not come. Its not rocket science, I guess.
But to be honest one reason I don’t blog every day is because it takes me so long to write something. No… that's not the truth, I do need be truthful. I must tell my readers…AS it is.
It’s not the length of time it takes me to write something, but the challenges I face when I painstakingly try to edit what I've written. Adding things, taking things out, adding something back only phrased differently so it sounds different or using a different word that means the same thing. It’s endless even editing a short piece as this, well for me anyhow…edit, edit, edit. Next thing you know, 3 days have gone by and still no new blog.
What can I say, I want it to be as perfect as I can make it, in spite of grammar challenges. But that’s the catch, it will never be perfect. I AM grammatically challenged which is how I refer to my inapt grammar, punctuation faux pas, the tendency to be wordy and the bad habit of repeating myself, which is only because I want the readers to get what I am trying to say. However, a wise woman once told me, “trust your reader to get it Kellie, they will”.
Thanks Tricia...www.faithhopeandfiction.com
Therefore, I say to all of you out there that have these fears...Write...and forget about other’s abilities. I will try to do the same. Write when you can, what ever you want, in whatever style you want, and where ever you can. But by God Write!
So what, you don’t write perfect, the perfection will come later and then maybe not, such as in my case, but still write. Get those thoughts down. They may look like a mess of words, but they are tales, your tales with messages hidden between the lines, fragmented sentences and too many commas, but they will come together as a coherent story.
Write, even if its merely a sentence, saying...crap I don't know what to write today. Write a poem about the day. Write a short story with you as the hero.
Write even if you think you’ll be criticized for your mistakes.
Remember mistakes are life’s lessons taking you under wisdom's wings. (hmm I like that. Sounds wise doesn’t it? I just made it up and guess what…I don’t even need to edit it)
Write, because you are a writer and that's what you do.
So write my fellow writers...write from the heart and what you write….will be beautiful
Writing wishes from
Kellie
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