This is both a new thing and an old one.

When you’re role playing, you edit as you type. You make sure it’s what you mean to say and that everything is spelled correctly. It makes less work for the person who has to put it all together to post.

Switch from going to that to writing an entire work before you edit. You go from a few lines to several pages that need combing over. It is a daunting thing.

To force cohesion on a large body of work is off putting at times. It’s the work of writing, not the dreaming. It’s where you ready the work to meet the demands of readers.

I will be full blown editing a work in the coming days. It will be a first time for me. But I seek to make it not the last.

From a worse to probably my best.

I know I have a knack for this. I am a magpie for words in my regular life. If I hear a word in an interesting way, then I will use that intonation when I use that word.

I also like to mix them up. Friends are used to me thanking them by saying, ‘Danke mucho’ or ‘Gracias beaucoup’.

It is a definite thing that I concentrate on, especially if I am doing a fanfic. I need the reader to hear that actor say those words and believe it.

I can maybe in love with dialogue too much. A serial fanfic I am doing begins with five lines of dialogue between two people before any action takes place. A reader was put off by that and almost didn’t continue with the story. Thankfully, she pushed past her reticence and is enjoying the fic.

I have an ancestor who was a musician. I like to think that my love of the sound of words is a translation of his talent. That the patterns I hear in syllables mirror those he heard in notes.

It is my go to. The one thing I can count on most.

Sadly, a minus in my writing is my concentration.

I can come up with the ideas fine. It’s keeping my attention on finishing the fics that is another matter.

I will come across a pic or something that speaks of having a story that needs to come out. About how part of being a writer is the uncontrollable need to share the tales within.

And it makes me wonder. Cause, yeah, I would like people to read my stories. But it’s not a driving desire to the point of distraction. It’s more like, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if’.

So then am I not a writer? Or maybe just a dreamer who can happen to put the visions into words?

When I was RPing, or doing fanfic that I posted on Live Journal or Greatest Journal, I knew I had an audience. There was someone to push me to get the writing done, an obligation to friends that I talked to every night.

So now I must make friends with self-motivation.

Here’s to that journey.

So, this is not my first attempt at blogging. But it is by far my most successful.

It started like all the other times. I set up the blog, write a somewhat self deprecating first post, then a second. And in the past that would be it.

One part of the problem was the sharing aspect of a blog. When someone says to me, ‘Tell me about yourself’, I never know what to say and will ask for specific information desired.

Another part of the problem is my current status as an amateur (in the sports sense) writer. The bulk of my work is fanfic, often of an explicit nature. I am not ashamed of that fact, but it is not something that I can lay a full claim to.

What original work I have created is still in the WIP stage and so is not ready for public consumption. So when I started a blog in the past, I wasn’t entirely sure what to put on it.

But this time was different. I found the Weekend Coffee Share. That lead me to this challenge and the Villain Blogathon. I was giving myself content with which to share my likes and outlook.

In addition, I had started a drabble writing group on Facebook in an effort to get my friends to take up the pen. By sharing the drabbles, I had original works to show off.

And I wasn’t shirking the blog. I was not in the mood for a recent Weekend Coffee Share and was going to blow it off. But I did write one and it wasn’t a half-assed effort.

And people were finding me. I was getting likes, comments, and followers. I was finding blogs that interested me and following them.

For whatever reason, the blog was clicking this time. I found myself making plans on what and when I should post things. I could see this lasting past the first few efforts at posting.

I might have just jinxed everything by going on about my wee personal success. But I think I can see this being the start of a continuing thing.

So I’m changing the theme for the challenge.

Actually, I changed my theme about three times before sticking with this one.

The new theme is My Writing. How I do it and how I feel about it.