I thought about what I would use as a title for this blog post but well, all I can say is it has been too long.2017 had me in all sorts of weird places emotionally, mentally and all that but also to be very honest, I was just spread too thin! For a long time, writing was one of those things I did for the love of it. But as it turns out, do a thing so long and you'll become good at it. I think (breaks into laugh).
I shall rephrase; do a thing long enough, learn to take criticism for it and learn as much as you can to better yourself at doing it. And the more you do the above, the better you become at it.
I suppose you have to love it to be willing to better yourself at doing it. For instance, my love for words supercedes my understanding of them. I first stumbled into a library when I was about 7nhalf going on eight. I had read Peter and Jane growing up and I loved it. So walking into this library, I went around very fascinated by these volumes of words contained in books and that's when I landed on 'A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens.'
I thought I would just try it out and if it didn't work out, I would move right on to my picture laden pages of story books. But I loved it! For the next two days I lived and breathed this bunch of words soaking them in like the dry sponge in water. I could not bring myself to put the book down. A nd so started my expedition towards words and reading them.
Over the next few years, I started to write my own stories- many of which have not seen the light of day. But write I did, and read some more I did!
So I am hoping to balance out this reading and writing thing this year even as I grow in both aspects! And of course to balance my time with these many little and major things that I hope to do! So here's to a year of more reading and writing!
Let's go 2018!
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