New Year. New start. Of course, we can start (or restart) any time we fancy, but there’s nothing like an official clean slate from time to time.
I spent chunks of last year musing over how to change the blog – or how to move it on a bit more. I kept referring to a commitment to writing. Then I would bottle it and run off and do nothing for a month or two.
By the end of last year, things started to make a bit more sense. The thing I find I like writing about the most is: books, and reading them. The thing I really want to do is: write books.
Off and on, I found some ways to make a start with writing that was intended for books. Children’s books, to be precise. I also discovered how hard it is to commit to being creative, every day, in public (ie, on a blog).
So here’s the plan. A post about children’s books, one a week.
A post under the Moments category – that one can be a bit looser. A lot of experiences right now seem to end up tagged as moments.
And hopefully, one more – on a topic of my choosing at the time. (You can guess that food is probably not that far away in my online thinking – but not exclusively.)
The thing is, it is hard to keep writing – and publishing online – every day. I can do it –
I know I can, because I’ve had a few months where I did keep writing in that way.
But what seems to happen is that I get flurries of writing – do several posts – then stop for a bit. It’s OK. There’s a lot of blogs out there I admire that do just fine on three posts a week.
So that’s the aim. Three a week – maybe more if I get the urge to write more. A break from monthly series.
Part of the aim is to allow more space to write the more overtly creative stuff (fingers crossed).
Potentially to hone pieces a little more before they go out. And To Add Pictures (not my strength (I know, you noticed), so allowing a bit more time for that).
But I recognise that regular writing builds a sense of writer’s voice. A blog will do just fine for that ongoing verbal exercising, as well as whatever writing ideas I find myself pursuing.
So I plan to keep showing up. I hope you will too.
Up next: a bit more of the thinking behind why I want to write about kids’ literature. See you soon.