To Blog, or Not to Blog?

I actually started a blog four months ago. The subject was Sarah Palin, a woman who easily gets me riled up and irritated. I could have spouted off about her for hours, but alas, I do have a day job—one that took me away for three weeks, interrupting any chance I had at turning this into a habit.

I considered starting up again but then I wondered, who cares what I have to say? I’m not some brilliant intellect and I have no idea who I want my audience to be. Plus, why expose all my thoughts for the world to read? Am I really that egotistical? I finally decided that I don’t care. None of that matters to me. What does matter is that I have a place for all these ideas in my head to live, and maybe these ideas will even spark “conversations” once in a while. And more importantly, as a writer with perennial writer’s block, maybe if this can turn into a habit, I’ll unplug the block and it’ll all come out in the torrents I dream of.

So I hereby pledge to myself to start with baby steps: No matter how vile a mood I’m in, or how tired I am, or what kind of crazy-creative excuse I come up with, I will write at least one minute a day, for at least a year. I will turn off my self-judging mechanism. I will not obsess (too much) over grammar and semantics. I will say what’s on my mind. And I will not obsess about pushing the “publish” button!

To blog!