Invisible Ink

I really and truly enjoy writing. It is one of my most favorite past times, and I have always been fairly good at it. I've known for many years that I am not creative enough to write an actual story, or anything remotely close to needing a creative touch. I am not a creative person. I don't think I can stress that enough.

I AM NOT A CREATIVE PERSON.

That's probably why I did so well as a History major in college. All I have to do is write about factual things that already happened? Sa-weet! I started college thinking I would be an English major, and since I already knew I wanted to be a teacher, that meant I would become an English teacher. Now, I mean no offense to anyone, but English is REALLY boring to teach. I love reading, I love writing, I love comparing and contrasting analytical essays. But I hate diagramming sentences. I hate studying nouns, verbs, adjectives, possessive, plural possesive, passive tense, adverbs, and whatever other new things they have invented since I last took an English class. Not my idea of a good time.

I have always used writing as a way to express my emotions and gather my thoughts. I used to only write to get thoughts out of my head and onto paper, but this lost its allure over time when I needed more direction. I gradually turned my writing into something a little different. It was still based on those thoughts and feelings I had a hard time verbalizing, but with an outside twist. I tried to take whatever was going on my life, stepped back, and wrote from an outside perspective. I guess it might be hard to visualize that, much less understand it, but you'll have to deal with it. I prefer the term "tortured artist."

Nowadays, it seems like I have a lot less to write about. I suppose that is a good thing, meaning my life is less tumultuous and a lot of issues have straightened themselves out, but I still feel the need to write and I still enjoy writing. It is just a little harder to figure out what to write these days. Right now, I am simply trying to get my feet wet and become accustomed to putting my thoughts/words/ideas into a public forum. Obviously, I have turned to blogging as an outlet, and I do plan to start even more specialized blogs in the near future. I do this not only because I feel confident in my writing abilities and I want to share my thoughts and ideas with the public, but also because I hope to someday use my writing as a supplemental income. Not necessarily "published," my aspirations are not that high by any means, but I would like to try my hand at freelance writing or blogging.

I'm still going to keep posting to this blog as normal, don't you worry. But as I post links to different, specialized blogs that I'm trying, I hope you check them out. Because the more readers I have, the more feedback I can receive, and that means I can only get better and better at this game!