New Post... You Excited?!

So... I haven't written in forever.  I'm not really sure why.  I guess there may just not be anything to write about.

Honestly, I think part of my lack of blogging (besides being overly busy and constantly berated by my boyfriend for never relaxing and always doing something) is because I've been "reading" some blogs.  The problem is - there are few worth reading.  Ok, so if you're my friend and you're reading this and you blog, I'm really sorry if that offends you.  I may or may not have read your blog, so it'd be dumb to take offense anyhow.  

The point is, I hate to read things about how people are feeling.  Sure, my blog has emotion in it (don't really know how as I tend not to be the most emotional person in the world), but it's not like my own personal diary.  And this is part of why I've never been all that excited about blogging.  I can't get into the whole journalling/diarying thing.  I just don't like it.  

On that note, when I was driving the other day, I realized how most of my nonfiction writing is really the naked truth and blatant honesty attempting to draw a picture of something or someone that is or has been part of my life.  It dawned on me that some of the things that I have written should probably make me self-conscious or worried about people knowing "too much" about me or my emotions and feelings.  Then it hit me that maybe one day, someone will read something I write and think, "Hey, I've been there," and be happy to know that they aren't the only one who has been through something like that.  

I think a huge part of why I'm totally ok with posting things like detailed stories about loving someone or why I have a tattoo with "Amazing Grace" music around my wrist or why I hate being called a Christian, or even just how much I love cursing is because I have had my personal, nonfiction writing critiqued by people who actually know what they're doing.

That being said, hopefully I'll start blogging more.  I need to get on this whole writing thing or I'm never going to get published.  Which may or may not be a bad thing.  I just know I'm not that great of a writer.