Moving from reading and thinking to doing

One of the benefits of half-assing my way through NaBloPoMo is that I’ve need to stretch my writing muscles for a while. I love to write. There’s a light that goes off in the back of my head when I see my thoughts transposed to words and the words not only sound right when I read the aloud, but form a block of text that has the right rippling of the left margin, height on the paragraphs, and how those paragraphs stack. Blogging software and templates impact that cohesion of sound and sight for me just slightly, and sometimes I lack motivation to spill the words that form in my head because I know that they will not parse well visually. Reading a variety of electronic formats has helped ease the dissonance, but there’s nothing left to do but just get through it. I’ve let a lot of good writing projects slip away from me over the years, and I may have tripped on something that’s MLIS-friendly, family friendly, and possibly income earning, down the road. It’s been on my mind for about a month, and it’s time to get it out of my head and quit feeling scared that it won’t be perfect to me, in addition to my regular fear that it won’t be palatable to anyone else.

So I’m stretching and with luck, toning my writing over here. I need to play with my blocks and show you all whatever I build.