Pen Pal Blog - Is anybody out there? September 20 2012

So now it's time to write another blog post.  I was just reading a very interesting, if a bit cynical, article about how to write a book.  It seems that the question is much more than that.  Most people who ask it want to know how to get a book published, or how to make money writing a book, or how to quit working and "be" an author.  But the thing I realized was that the real core is about judgment.  The real question I have about writing a book is about the audience, not about the writing.  I judge the words I use

I judge my choice of paragraph breaks, grammar and spelling. Sentence fragment? Judge that too.  But what I really want is to write.  To do this I have to divorce myself from the audience.  I have to not worry about whether I will appear foolish for writing something stupid.  I have to let go of my own judgment that my writing is not good enough to be written.

Not good enough to be written.  Who does that guy think he is writing something and publishing it?  Who do I think I am writing like this.

And so I realized, I don't really even want to write a book.  I would much rather write an online diary.  I would also think it was really cool if I could start communicating with other people who want to do the same thing.  A kind of forum.

I don't want to just write a book, I want to start some kind of communication.  A group.  This could be like A PenPal Blog.  It's open to anyone who wants to write something.

Did you read this?  Are you out there?

Anonymously.