This is more difficult than I expected! Or maybe difficult for different reasons than I expected.
I started this project with the intention of writing a little something almost every day. I've actually done that, but I've hard time hitting that publish button.
For one thing, I'm realizing I get in my own head when I write. I second guess what I'm saying. I put myself in your shoes and argue with myself. I worry that I come across unaware that I'm writing from a position of priviledge. Sometimes I feel like I box myself in when I make a statement and later write something that contradicts it.
That's just human though, we sometimes contradict ourselves.
Another thing: I think I'm being too precious. I have a lot of ideas, but when I go to write them I want to include every thought I've ever had about the topic, make it the perfect expression of what's in my head.
That's literally impossible.
I forget that it's okay to have themes when you write, that saying a little something about a topic doesn't make that topic off-limits forever.
One other thing: when I pick a topic and start writing, I almost always start writing a story from my own experience - without meaning to. Then it starts to drift... and by the time I pull it back around to the topic I feel like I'm rambling. Then I erase what I had, start again and the same thing happens. I'll look back at what I've written and see "a couple years ago, I was at this job..." Gah! How did that get back in there??
So I think I'll just let that happen for a while. Hopefully that'll get the cobwebs out.
