Okay, after a few attempts, here's my introduction.
There's that one thing. The thing that when someone asks, "Do you have a favorite hobby?" You automatically think of. It may not be just one thing, it might be a few, or maybe even many. If someone were to ask me, "Katelyn, what do you like to do?" I may have several different answers.But the hobby I seek the most approval for is writing.
In the course of my fledgling writing career, I've discovered I don't usually enjoy re-reading things I've written in the past. I've written down ideas in notebooks, passages in journals, short stories in binders...Nearly every time I re-read a sentence or two that I think is even remotely unlikeable, I get rid of it. Dispose of every shred of evidence it ever existed.Whole sections of writing. I tear them up and am grateful no one was ever forced to read them. I've even tried online journals as well. They didn't work, because they come with the nifty button labeled "delete".
On the few occasions I do manage to show someone something I've written, I get an uneasy feeling. I start to wonder, What if they don't like it?or Did I fix that one bit? or What if that part doesn't make sense to them? Etc...
I've gotten really positive feedback from my writing in the past few years, and have become a little more comfortable in allowing other human beings to look at my stories or articles.
One of the reasons I wanted to start a blog was to get more feedback on my style of writing. To get encouragement, criticism (everyone needs it once in a while) and a few new ideas. In writing a blog, people can read it and post comments on it, even if I've ever met them before. I'm going to lean on the idea that people will read it and people will like it, even if people is exchanged for person...I can reply to "What's your favorite hobby?" with;
"Writing, want to see my blog?"
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