Getting started

I am starting a blog tonight. I’m not entirely sure why I am doing this, to be honest. I just know that I want to.

Who knows what I'll discover when I take a closer look

I am inspired by other bloggers. I enjoy reading about their lives - recipes, photos, decorating - the minutia, the mundane. It’s a connection of our shared hopes and experiences that I enjoy. I thought I might join the conversation.

I am also seeking a kinda/sorta creative outlet wherein I actually do some writing. See, I used to make a living writing. And I was a pretty good writer. I’m still one heck of a storyteller, as evidenced by the yarns I like to spin over a glass of wine with friends, or even the small, but important, bits of perspective or history shared with my teenage son on the short drive to school in the morning. But nowadays, I make my living as more of an editor. Still a good gig, but I spend so much time scrutinizing others’ works, I rarely get a chance to put pen to paper myself – though obviously, there is neither pen, nor any paper going on here. And when I do actually write something original, I have a hard time getting the editor to stop interrupting the writer. Editor Chick is all, “You really should use a semi-colon, not a dash.” And the Writer Chick is all, “Whatever. Never mind.”

And the Word doc disappears (no, she doesn’t want to to save this document) and the laptop goes dark.

Here’s the thing: I want to tell stories, be they my own or others, and I hope this blog will allow me to do so. It would be nice to tell them to somebody. But if nobody shows up, that’s ok. The show will still go on. The story will be told. Not sure how frequently. But it will go on.

Angel of the Lake, Mount St. Francis

And so I will try to quiet the editor, though she be a bossy broad, and let the writer say her peace. Or is say her piece? The editor would look it up. This writer isn’t going to.

Until next time – Lorri

PS: I looked it up, but found definitive grammatical preference of piece vs. peace in the phrasing above. Though I think I mean it more like piece. But I didn’t change it. Progress comes in little bits.

PS+: And yes, I need a better design. I am still figuring Blogger out. It's not what it will be, but it is what it is ... for now.