New to the Blogging World

After a long and boring day I thought to myself  "I should start a blog!".   This occured to me after thinking about the things that people could possibly do and never get bored. Now I don't want to become this blogging maniac that fills up any free second with an update on my life. On the contrary, I instead believe that blogging will help me network and express myself in times when the mood strikes-just like today.

So I submitted a short story and photograph to an online newsharing website and am still waiting for a yay or nay. I am by no means a creative writer, but with practice comes payoff and it would be my dream job to sit at my lap top, notebook or journal and get paid for writing about things that are going on in my world.

I'm just one of those people that continues to struggle with my confidence, especially in my writing. I'm sure this is common amongst young writers-and with a four year Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature I feel that my writing has become...clinical. I never took a creative writing class or even dared to write a story. Language is formal and in the consistent state of now or then in essays.

This process has inevitably turned me into a critic-movies, television shows, songs, lyrics, pictures, people, pets, my own mind..well you get the idea. I am more than self critical, I am overly critical. And the worst part is, is that I don't really share my opinions with others but instead go through the list of pro's and con's in my head, rating this thing or idea until I have literally anhillated it into nothing. Into a symptom caused by so many other things and made up of so many other things, that the thing itself cannot and will no longer exist on its own.

Buddha would be proud? Yes, Buddha would be proud. After all, some of you may recognize this as the process of seeping into everything else and becoming one with the universe.  But let me clarify; my process is not so tranquil and serene-it is instead a logical mind compulsion. haha. Say it with me now "Logical Mind Compulsion".

Well, enough about me..tootles!