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February 24, 2021

Trouble

Today’s post is giving me trouble. It came to me last week…last like Wednesday or Thursday to be not so exact, and I’m having the hardest time writing it.

It’s not coming easy to me. It took me forever just to get a word on the page, to try and solidify the concept. It’s a jumble of puzzle pieces that I have to put together, only to find that some of these pieces don’t belong. Some don’t fit. And not only that, but some are missing and I have to do research to find them.

Sigh.

I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could finish it by today. I don’t know if I can, but I didn’t. I don’t know if I would have gone a little harder and given you whatever my best would have ended up being had I finished by now, if it would have been any better or worse than what it will be when I post it…or if it will be the same.

But I hate this feeling that looms over me, this writing anxiety, where nothing that I want to be good is ever good enough.

Writing ain’t easy, but I’ma do this thing. I’ll have it for you before next Wednesday. I’m shooting for tomorrow. Hopefully me telling you that will get me going.

Know the feeling?

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Introducing My Writing Practice!

You know, writing rarely comes easy for me. Most of the time I mull over it forever, then edit it and edit it,  only for it to still be filled with errors, or just not be quite right.

Part of the problem is I’m reaching for that old unattainable perfection. The other part is I need to read and write more.

So this is me, writing more.

In this series, I’m giving myself two hours to write about a topic of my choice nonstop, and 30 minutes to edit it before I post it here, just as it is.  The great sentences and the incoherent ones with spelling and grammatical errors too.  I’m just going to write and see what it will be.

I’ll be posting these writing practices once a week. I’m not sure which day, and maybe no particular day, just one time a week, with no end date as of now.

I can be so insecure about my writing, so I think this will be helpful.

Here’s to writing and getting better at it!

Thanks for reading!

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Lord, let me be that river.

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