I’m starting this blog as a somewhat more personal version of my personal tumblr. I know what you’re thinking — how much more personal could I get? Well, I feel as though this will be slightly more intimate as opposed to just personal. The difference between this blog and my personal tumblr is that this blog will be solely comprised of original material, and it will be writing-based. Therefore, it is more intimate in that you will be hearing my thoughts and opinions in my own words and not through impulsive reblogs of whatever appeals to my fancy at any given moment.
I wanted to start a writing-based blog not because I feel as though I have anything truly monumental to say, but because I simply enjoy writing. I am now in my second week of finals and, as a political science major, have had to write a countless number of essays. At some point amid my stress and confusion (and let’s face it, drugged-up haze from my ADHD medication), I realized that I am a good writer and that my talents are essentially going to waste due to the fact that I have very seldom sat down and written anything just for the sake of writing it in a very long time.
I never used to write anything special. I kept a sporadic journal during the course of my teen years for when my feelings got too big to hold in and occasionally wrote a poem or two. Fanfiction was also something that I wrote frequently, but no one ever read it except for a few close friends who were interested in the ships or fandoms. The writing that I did for school was great, but rather useless to me due to the fact that it was a mindless following of mediocre assignments. My habit of writing began to taper off somewhere during my senior year of high school and had ceased completely by the time that I entered college. Before this semester, I honestly think that I completed a mere total of two papers for my classes (However, this was before I was diagnosed with ADHD and two learning disabilities; more on that in another post.).
I believe that this is the time to begin writing things that are special. And by special, I don’t mean that I think my writing will catch on or make me internet famous; if that was my goal, I would be writing on blogspot or wordpress instead of tumblr. Perhaps I will start a more serious blog on one of those sites someday, but for the time being my goal is to simply write things and to write them well. I don’t know how often I will post updates, but frequency is not my goal. I just want to write things that are meaningful to me.
If you are reading this, please don’t expect much from me; I am merely doing this for my own pleasure. If you like what you read, however, feel free to stick around. It’s going to be an interesting ride.
-A
