Baby Steps

It's a new year and the idea strikes when you see a quote that says "Today is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one." Then an old high school friend  comments on your Facebook posting of said quote " Always about writing, aren't you? You should write and then publish your "365" book!"
You respond "Hmmm...a page a day, 250-300 words per page, 91,250 to 109,500 words total....yeah, I could do that!"...and then you wonder how to go about getting started and your son says "You could start a blog."

One of the first things I said after my son suggested this format as a way to "write a good one" was "Aren't blogs supposed to be ABOUT something in particular, so that people will want to read it?".  My son tells me that most people write blogs for themselves; it's not about having anyone else read them.  I guess it says something about me when my immediate response to that was "But I WANT people to read it.  I don't need a blog to journal for myself."  He was encouraging...telling me that I have lots of things I could write about and share and that I should just try it.


What I know about writing a blog could, as they say, "fit on the head of a pin".  I am much more familiar with reading them.  But this was interesting and new and kind of exciting so I hopped onto Google and searched "Starting a blog" and found links to a couple of YouTube videos and a couple of articles, all of which seemed to think Blogger was pretty much THE way to go for a "newbie" blogger and so...here I am.  I still have no idea if this will go anywhere, but what is there to lose by trying it?  If nothing else, I'll have a nice online journal where I can post pictures and maybe a video and my hand won't get writer's cramp because it's a lot easier to type for long periods of time these days than it is to write with a pen (though I do still love the WRITTEN word on paper and have lovely journals that I treasure).

If I can trust the Word document into which I just cut and pasted this entry, I've met my goal for the day with over 350 words.  What do you know?  That was completely painless.  

As for you, if there IS a "you" reading this, I hope you are interested enough to come back so you can find out exactly what I mean by "First of all...focus!".