Here I sit, true to the title of this blog, reluctantly writing. I created this blog about 365 days ago with a resolution to get it “out there”. Whatever exactly I had intended to do however, fell flat. January of 2018 was a doozy and it seemed perfectly reasonable, between my husband’s job relocating him, health issues, (which I am sure I’ll whinge about sooner or later) and all the stress that accompanies selling your house and leaving your dream job, to put off writing a blog. I was writing the good stuff, (you know, another novel that I don’t intend anyone else to read) and for a long time that was enough.
An entire year passed with the only content on this page, a premade welcome. Then, one afternoon I got a message (SPAM) on my blog with the urgent question, “What are we going to do about this?” It got me thinking, “What am I going to do about this?”
So here I go. I’ve got to start somewhere, despite my crippling perfectionism (don’t laugh, you wouldn’t know it if you met me- but it turns out I only hold myself to these high standards and it’s usually in the mentality of ‘If I can’t do it perfectly- I won’t bother… you’d be shocked at the amount of things I just don’t bother doing- hense the procrastination).
Run-on sentences and lengthy tangents aside; the moral of the story is that procrastination can keep us from achieving even the simplest tasks, but maybe, if you squint, procrastination is actually a proofing drawer (I’ve been binge watching Great British Bake-Off… I don’t ACTUALLY bake… see previous paragraph) that allows us to withstand the tasks ahead. Maybe it just took 365 days and a link of questionable origin for me to be ready to finally take the leap into blogging.
In anycase- welcome to the second year (sort of) of my blog. Can I overcome all the many obstacles ahead of me and actually TRY to publish something? (*insert old timey radio show suspenseful music here) Stay tuned!
Kelly Moore Writes 