IWSG

The brainchild of Alex Cavanaugh, the purpose of the Insecure Writer's Support Group is: to share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!

Posting is the first Wednesday of every month.

You can sign up HERE.

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I'll tell you what's been getting to me lately. I keep wondering, what the heck am I going to blog about next? 

I took November off and most of the month I worked on my grandmother's cookbook, but the whole time away, at the back of my brain, was this  niggling, whispering imp, with an irritating, raspy voice - the kind that can raise the hairs on the back of your neck - saying things like:

Art by Arthur Rackham from my ancient book of Grimm Fairy Tales

 "Why don't you just stop blogging? What more could you possible write about? Who reads your stupid old blog anyway? What's the point when every week you struggle to think of something? And don't forget, you've got to go around and VISIT people and be SOCIABLE. You KNOW it's a waste of time. Think of all the other things you could be doing! Reading a book, watching mindless TV, working on your next novel, sweeping the floor. DUSTING! And what about Mondays? You know it's Mondays that give you fits. You NEVER know what to write on MONDAY. And isn't that the day you want your post to be the most interesting and new and exciting? Give it up, why don't you?"

On and on and on with the negatives. 

Personally, I don't know how some of you do it. I'm talking about people like Alex Cavanaugh, Lee McKenzie, Diane Wolfe, and Joy Campbell. There are many others, I know, but these are the ones that came immediately to mind. I see them all over the place, doing all sorts of things, and I wonder, how do they do it? 

Are their brains literally plugged into their computers so that all they have to do THINK about it and **POOF** they're on Facebook or Twitter or Blogger, or wherever, and they're got their ideas and words and links and pictures all right there and **POOF** it's all posted and neat and perfect? 

(I have just spent like 20 minutes searching for a picture I could safely use. It's taken well over an hour to write this post. I'll be looking it over Tuesday to make sure there aren't any glaring mistakes.)

So tell me, do you ever feel like quitting too? 

I probably won't because I've still got a lot of words on my list of over used words that still need to be given ALTERNATIVES. And just this morning I woke up with an idea for something ELSE I can do on Thursdays along with my other occasional and random posts.


So stop by tomorrow and you'll be privy to my new idea. That's right, I'm posting THREE times in ONE WEEK. So much for quitting.