Isn't it just so...well, I-wannabe-a-writer, to be wracked with guilt at not writing?
Helium dared to invade my blogging bubble with an email inviting me (and everyone else on their ginormous email list) to participate in their new Pulitzer Center Citizen Journalist Contest.
And I was smacked into remembering that I oft suffer from lofty delusions of writing something world-changing.
I tell myself - as I dash around our wee little town, carting kids and groceries and sporting gear hither and yon - that blogging is writing on the brink. It is information multiplied into infinity. When everyone has the power to share their voice, to share their knowledge, in the time it takes to click a mouse, the world will never be the same again.
And then I hold the familiar weight of a book in my hands.
The guilt, the just-try-harder, rolls over me.
I sigh.
Then I pray.
WM
don't beat yourself up! it's not like you're sitting around all day. you're busy. write when you can, read good books, maybe take a class. the Ralph Keyes book is excellent, btw.
ReplyDeletewhat's wrong with my theme? it looks okay to me.
I can feel your pain. I'm a wanna-be too and I have a stack of rejection letters to prove it! Keep at it, though.
ReplyDeletehi Marianne,
ReplyDeleteI hope you do join us for MMSM! I so hear you on the guilt and the dreams and then the chasing after the kids all day long.
Read the best line yesterday, by someone who's actually sent her book off to an editor for consideration. Am so jealous that she actually just DID IT.
Anyway, it was:
The great thing about being a nobody is that you can dream of becoming somebody but nobody will fault you if you don’t.
The full post was here: http://www.mormonmommywars.com/?p=1188