I’ve struggled to start writing this blog for a number of reasons, most valid, but still not good enough to completely dismiss the idea altogether. I struggle as a writer because I know I’m not anywhere near the best, even in regards to my style of writing. I’m not Pulitzer prize material, but I can’t help the feeling that I need to write. Now, don’t mistake me for one of those people that carries a pen and paper everywhere just waiting for the second they get to write again. I’m not that way either. Yes, I carry around a notebook - and occasionally a good book for reading - but I don’t look to writing every free moment. This I could chalk up to the fact that I’m a new wife, young step-mom, working full-time, and attending an online university full-time. Even before all this though, I only wrote when I was in certain moods, and now that my career is mostly writing I rarely find myself in that mood.
But here I am, writing this. I don’t know what I was thinking, but it's too late to turn back now. Let me first start by quickly breaking some writers stereotypes so that you can better understand who I am.
We are not all creative.
Some writers are, and the greatest writers ever known were creative. C.S. Lewis is of great inspiration to me with his writing. Not at all because he made sense 100% of the time or that his grammar was perfectly, but because of the creativity that flowed through his writing. The analogies he drew to put heaven and other “unseeables” or “unknowables” into spectacular visual imagery that astounds me. That is the kind of creativity I long for, but the kind that I lack on every scale.
We live to write.
Did you hear me mention that I have a family, full-time job, and am a full-time student? Not me. I’m lucky if I get to do writing - outside of work - once a week.
We all want to be a critically acclaimed author.
I love books, but I have no desire to write a long book about one topic. Plus, you start getting all that fame and fortune you have to travel and do book signings. That is not for me, no thank you.
Now that we got that cleared up and out of the way….
I think another reason I have a tendency to avoid writing is because I feel as if all the topics I want to write about already have a library full - hence the reason my blog is called “To Beat A Dead Horse” - and, well, the other topics I’m not knowledgeable enough to write about.
More than anything, I am a Christian, and I truly believe that my words have the power to speak life and death (Proverbs 18:21). All my life I was taught that, and I don’t doubt it one bit, I have seen miraculous things come about because someone spoke with the power of Christ over another. This, however, has also made me more timid and attentive to what I say. Not because I am shy, but because I don’t want to say or do the wrong things that could lead people astray.
So, as I begin here and write about whatever I may, I ask that you are patient with me, but also challenge me. I don’t want to be right all the time, or even most of the time. I love to hear others thoughts and standings on situations, but do keep it appropriate, and I dare say professional. This is not here for a war to be waged or hatred to be spewn.
I welcome you and look forward to what the future holds. Thank you for embarking on this journey with me.
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