John Phillip Bogulski & Tarrah Lee Curtis

I started this a year ago. 8 days away from exactly a year. It’s not quite a happy anniversary since my posts never reached double digits or extended beyond August 2018. I thought this would be a big, exciting step forward in my writing process. Since I feel like I’m always in my head thinking and then overthinking, I thought why not put it on a page. I didn’t expect the masses to flock to it, and it wasn’t even for that. It was for me. To give me an outlet to put those fleeting thoughts that often go unsaid. Well I have not been very good to me. Turns out the thinking and overthinking thing extends to my thought process to writing a post here as well. Any time I had a thought, I would think that’s not good enough and what I have to say is not interesting enough. But that is so dumb because if it’s not interesting, people just won’t read it.

For the record I have been writing. I finally got a draft I like of a pilot I’ve been working on for 3 years. I have my first novel in a place where I’m ready to show to agents. I also wrote another novel and half of a third. In some part of my mind I got to thinking that this was for when I wanted to write but didn’t want to work on a script or book.

But this isn’t about excuses. The only reason I’m really writing this is to say that I plan on writing other things here and by posting it I am more likely to hold myself accountable. I still don’t really have a theme for what this is. Maybe that will become clearer as I go on. Maybe it won’t. But nothing will happen unless I actually write.

Writing is important to me. No matter where I actually end up career wise, it is something that I have to do. There’s something cathartic about turning my thoughts into typed words. I’m still not going to go crazy and declare that I’m writing every day for a month or even a week. I’m just going to take this one post at a time and hope the more I do, the easier it will become. Or in a fun ironic twist, this is the last post I ever write. Time will tell, but I will try to at least go against that last one.

So tomorrow I’m going to post something I told myself I would post a month ago about the titillating topic of dental floss.