Something New

This is something that, from people's influence, I have decided to try. But I plan on doing it differently. For starters-I'm not to sure how much of my personal life I can post here. I'm not comfortable with that just yet but maybe it'll change. My main objective is just to write! Hopefully every weekend there will be something new-something that's all my own. Something that I have worked on.

So there...that's it. My idea for this blog.

I will give some information as to why I decided to start this written adventure. It all started when Sabrina (I'm going to use aliases here, a way for me to protect their privacy. Those who are mentioned should know who they are) had me read some of her stories and I realized I could do that. Thanks Sabrina.

Then Dee Ann and Julian started to write a blog (mostly about themselves and their thoughts) over the past year and again, I thought that I could do that. But they are so much braver than me-they're posting their life whereas I'm creating a fictional escape (that may change at a time in the future). It's still just as hard I think. "These words are my own!" (Even those really aren't! Ha!) And I'm making myself vulnerable to my readers and followers in a different sort of way.

Next are my parents! Something that six or seven years ago I would have never wanted to admit. Things have changed since then-I've started to grow up! My dad was over a last weekend and was talking about how I could do this. Write a blog sort of like Julie Powell did when she moved through Julia Child's cookbook. I could write about a certain thing and create a possible career for myself, start something new. I thought about it some after he left but nothing came to me...until now. My mom is what really spurred me into just hoisting up my skirts and start running frantically into the mud. We had been talking about a quiz I had taken in a class that I always had trouble in (the grade was the best I have EVER gotten!). She Said "...you're a smart girl and you can do this." This is something that I'll always remember, and even though our conversation had nothing to do with me starting this blog I believe that it resonates through out my present and future endeavors.

So thank-you to everyone who has inspired me and encouraged me. You're the reasons why I'm going to make this an actual effort!