Why did you start your writing? Is that still why you write, or has your writing gone in a different direction than you’d planned?
I started writing as a whim, I was surfing the internet, stumbled onto WordPress and decided to give it a go by signing up for The Daily Prompt and I became addicted to writing. The joys and benefits that I found through writing are still relevant for me to this day. Several of the benefits that I have encountered through writing on a daily basis is relief from the stresses, the angst and the anxieties that I used to feel acutely every single day. The therapeutic value that writing has given to me is priceless and I will continue to write for a very long time.
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One reason that I started blogging was to share. I liked to reflect on movies or TV shows I had seen, or books I had read, or politics, or religion, and I wanted some format in which I could do that publicly. I was glad to find that starting a blog was easy! I had thoughts that I wanted to share! I still find this to be the case.
I also wanted a blog so I could vent, but I limit myself here. In my opinion, there are limits as to how vulnerable I can be with the public, since I never know who might be reading me. This frustrates me, in terms of blogging, because I often feel that I cannot blog honestly.
In the course of blogging, I learned that blogging through books made me a better reader. I still find this to be the case. Nowadays, though, I find that I don’t necessarily want to blog about each day’s reading (of books) that I do. Some days, there are many gems that stand out to me in my book-reading. Other days, I have a hard time finding one gem in my book-reading.
I know what you mean about the mine field of venting and too much sharing, it is a fine line. I struggle with that often but I carry on because writing does so much for me. 🙂 I’m so glad that it does the same for you. 🙂