So I have a confession to make: it has been a pain in the ass trying to get back into the swing of the whole blogging thing! I feel like I am in a blog funk, but only because I am so out of practice. I mean it isn’t like I don’t have any ideas or anything or want to do it. I have a plenty big mouth and even more of an ego, which are begging for chances to wield themselves!
Instead, I think I am afraid. I am afraid of putting my self out there again, afraid of what I know I need to write and the past I need to wrestle with, and maybe even afraid of the conclusions I might draw from that wrestling. So to get things going I cracked open a book I bought two years ago called, “The Writer’s Idea Book.” This is NOT a Writing for Dummies, but rather a book to get the juices flowing and develop a writing rhythm. The book offers several prompts and writing exercises from silly things like “write about a time when your creativity flowed” to “write about a character who feels deep regret about some part of his life.” It has been a good read so far and, hey, it’s published by Writer’s Digest Books so it can’t be too lame, right?
Anyway, so to get back into a writing rhythm I plan on blogging some of these writing exercises. As I have wrestled with my identity the last year one of the things that keeps surfacing is communicator. And in light of my spiritual gift as a teacher I would say writing is a big part of who I am. I am a writer and so I need to write, maybe not necessarily well or compellingly, but I do need to be consistent and disciplined in cultivating and stewarding this gift.
So off I go…enjoy!
-jeremy
