To My Reader(s) part 2

So I’m reading Stephen King’s On Writing.  So far so good.  But one of the things he repeats and makes pretty clear is that in order to be a writer you must write.

When I started this blog it was – ostensibly – to become a writer.  You might have guessed this from the title.  But it was more specifically to become a writer at [adult swim] the grown up/night time version of Cartoon Network.  To that end I wrote every day, or nearly every day, for a year or so.  Then I got frustrated and distracted, as I’m known to do, and I left the blog for a while.  Then I came back, left, came back, started several other blogs, left, came back and left.

Now I’m back, and this time I think I’m here for good; for better or worse.

But I didn’t just “leave” the blog.  I stopped writing.  When the blog started I had gotten into a habit of writing in it every day and I saw my writing flourish.  Then I got involved in a book I was writing and my blogging stopped.  Then I stopped working on the book, but I never came back to my writing.

Let me rephrase: I am almost always creating.  There are some days when I don’t because I’m too busy with work/family/Skyrim.  But most days I have some kind of creative output.  And frequently that is writing.  I write a song.  I write a poem.  And some days I write haikus to put in my kids’ lunches.  If I’m not writing then I’m drawing or developing back story for something.

But those are excuses.  I should be writing, formally/semi-formally every day.  I should be putting words in a cohesive order to express an idea every day.  Not necessarily a story.  Not necessarily long.  But every day, putting something down.

So that’s what I’m gonna do.  For my 43 year (which begins soon, but I’ll go ahead and start now) I’m gonna write in this blog every weekday.  I will attempt to write on the weekends too, but my access to a computer is more limited on the weekends.  But Monday through Friday I will be posting to this blog.

I hope you enjoy.