Well, hell, it looks like I'll have to continue writing now. People are expecting things of me now. Geesh! Didn't think that one through. Takes more time than I'd thought. Don't know how to do the fancy stuff everybody puts on their blogs. And it takes so much time to tinker and try to figure it out myself. Miss Bee tells me to just write and worry about that stuff later.
Yeah, what have I started? I began (was it only yesterday) without an idea of where I was going and next thing I was going on about my Mom. Y'all will probably hear a lot about her. Maybe it's what I've needed to do all along. My grief counselor has been bugging me to journal about it for months. I kept thinking "yeah, yeah" but never got around to it.
I fancy myself a writer, but I've got two books that have sat partially written for I don't want to tell you how long. I don't know what's stopping me. Am I bored? Afraid? I read other stuff and find myself thinking how woefully inadequate I am to think I could EVER write as good as that author!! I don't believe that kind of thinking is helping me.
Yet, I write for a living. So maybe I'm just damn tired of writing by the time I get home for the day? So, what the hell am I doing here? I keep thinking if I figured it out, I could get back in the groove and continue my book efforts. Someone said in their blog it was a way to get themselves to just WRITE every day. Well, I didn't think when I started this that I'd be committing myself to a DAILY thing. Hmmmm. Maybe it is a way to simply get myself to write. I make excuses to myself - "I write most every day." But that's true and insufficient both. It's literally true, BUT it's not the 'open yourself up to the world' kind of creative writing that scares me so. Scares me. Yep. That's really it and I know it. I've heard that just keeping the wheels greased, so to speak, with daily writing helps.
Y'all want to be a part of my therapy?? (Yeah, ranks right up there with root canals!)
Anyway, after a whole DAY of this new experience, I think maybe it'll get me out of myself a little; will help me make new friends in SPITE of my shyness; maybe I'll learn some new stuff; and - did I say maybe I'd make some new friends??? That would be nice. Miss Bee tells me I'll have to get better at patience (as far as getting my blog 'pretty' the way I'd like it) - but she also promised to help me. Sweet Nevins did too, as well as this new person I "met" called Mo. What a nice start for one day!
I'm looking forward to what 2007 will hold, and I can hardly believe I said that. Even a month ago all I could do was dread the day and struggle through it. It feels good to feel hopeful again.
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oh goody! a new post!!!
i am going to give you an assignment. to go visit a blog. daily for awhile. i will tell you which one, okay?
my friend nancy liedel at "the goat rodeo" is a good place to start. she is a stay at home mom but your differences end right there. she loves to cruise, she writes steamy novels, and lots more stuff for you to discover about her.
as for the sidebar stuff, time my friend. it will come in time. get the content and see where it leads you and the rest will follow. and you are lucky mo came to visit. he is a darling and i love him. did you go there and leave him a comment back?
i will be back later. your writing is good too! very good.
ly p
Why, thank you for the compliment! I'll go visit your friend. I dont' understand some stuff I see on blogs like having to enter your "url" to participate in some stuff. I don't know what a url is. *sigh*
I'm going to the goat rodeo. Gotta get my cowgirl boots on!
If you do not know, I had a problem with my Blog today. I have opened a new blog. I have made a new post on the new site, a link is provided on old site.
TODAY SUCKS...........
Hello again, Rose!
Blogging is GREAT cheap therapy!
Plus, the instant feedback is good, too (said the comment ho mo -- homo, get it? I crack myself up, I'm such a ho. Oh well....)
Anyway, the sidebar stuff will come with time, like Bee said. A GREAT way (again, like Bee said) is to visit other sites -- see what you like, and what doesn't do much for you. Then take the likes and incorporate them into your site.
I had mine for a long time before I added stuff to the sidebar, then I started with links, which I see you have already (yes, great start!).
The next one probably is a sitemeter.
And then MyBlogLog.
And then... I'm just kidding, do whatever feels right for you!
by the way, your url is your website name in html, so you are
http://thornyrose1.blogspot.com
most of the time, you'll only need to enter the thornyrose1.blogspot.com, like in a LinkyBox.
Remember, there are NO stupid questions in Blogging -- Bee, Sarge, and I have all had to ask or learn for ourselves how to do this shit already, we're more than happy to pass on our knowledge (the few grains we have) and try to steer you clear of our mistakes.
Cheers!
mo
the comment ho
A rose by any other name is just a rose.
I don't know why i started that way but you are special.
I think you should do a blog about the execution that was screwed up a few weeks back. I have been think about it, i am sure you would do a better job.
Again i do not know why but typing that made me think of Meloncutters comment about a "Well Hung Dictator" in referance to the recent hanging in Iraq.
Have a good day sweet pea
blog rose blog....... sigh
(please?)
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