So you wanna be a blogger?

This is it

I’m talking to myself and making a blog. I’m trying to get this stuff going. It’s a struggle. It’s a struggle to be creative, to want to make something that expresses something inside us.

So how do you do it? How do you make something that is worthy of publication? The truth is you don’t. You can’t make something for publication, you have to make what is true to you. You have to speak with your own voice, create something that someone sees as having potential then they rip it apart and you rebuild it from the ground up the way the publishers want it. I think, don’t quote me on this. I’ve only been blogging for a few months but I am old that I know, so take it for what it’s worth.

I’ve been recently going through a creative down turn I’ve not been writing I've not been thinking in a creative mindset and that’s odd for me because I’ve been sort of depressed and stressed and things are spinning wildly out of control in the personal life BUT this is normally the time when I want to escape when I want to create the most.

Something you might want to know is that I don’t edit, not really, I’ll get a pass on with spell check but after that it’s up to you to get mad and curse me out for grammar, see you in the comments.

As I said, I don’t know what I’m doing. You can do this as well, you can sign up to a site like medium or wordpress and start posting stuff and it will do nothing for your endorphin deprived brain but that’s ok. You don’t need to have this crap mean anything other than you get it off your chest or mind or whatever.

If you do one thing though you should do this: be consistent. It’s all you really need. Fight through the laziness, the idea of doing more tomorrow, the “lack of time” you think you have. If you want, if you really want it, the clicks and likes and subs etc then you must be consistent. It’s the only way to get better.

Practice makes perfect because when you’re consistent you gain the discipline to carry on when the going gets tough and to up your game. You build the house from the foundation up and finding your consistency is key to all of it. Painting, drawing, acting, stand up, improve, reading, working out you must be consistent. You can gain so much if you just make it a habit but there is the challenge and if you’re serious you have to make the sacrifice to put the work in to make it work.

So good luck.