I’m up on a Saturday at 8:30 p.m. writing. This is the way it should be. Since I claim I want to be a writer, I often think about what other writers I follow and admire do. I envision them sitting at their laptops at all hours of the night and day writing–putting something down on the blank page. I imagine them coming up with blog topics at the spur of the moment and putting them in their iPhones and Blackberrys so they’ll remember (I’ve started to do that, too!). I imagine them sitting in Starbucks and bookstores pushing material out to meet deadlines and also just for the pure joy of writing. I imagine them not going a day without doing any of that.
That’s amazing considering I’ve gone a full six days without writing. My excuses reasons were it’s been a rough week, I was hella tired and my favorite: I didn’t have anything to write about.
Straight bullshit. I live in a world where high-profile celebrities and politicians’ daughters are making their marks as porn stars and makeup thieves. Even as I speak , someone is criticizing my First Lady for taking a trip to Spain with her daughter, no different from what past white First Ladies have done.
There’s always something to write about. Even if it’s just the things in my head. I have no excuse. So today, I declare a new start. To get me on track, I’m going to get the random stuff out. Here goes….
—–Break——
Okay, obviously, that’s what I wrote on Saturday. At that very moment, I received a call from my mom telling me my grandmother was having emergency surgery because she broke her hip. I cried. A lot. Today, I feel much better thanks to nonstop prayer and family. She’s doing fairly well, but the recovery will be tough. And she WILL recover.
So today, I’m going to start over in this writing thing the best I can. My mind is truly blank right now, but luckily, I found something to keep me on track. Ishea at Six Twenty Seven is participating in a 30 Day Blog Challenge. I need something to hold me accountable, and despite everything that’s going on, I have to keep living. And living for me includes writing. Here are the rules:
I guess I should make today Day 1.
Because I Said So 
It’s funny because I was sitting up this weekend at random hours wondering “where are all the 24/7 writers?” I’m a writer in the sense that I’m writing all the time… coming up with ideas all the time (way too many scraps of paper have blog topics jotted on them and I even have a running list in my blackberry…)and I want to read all the time. I’m glad you’re tackling this challenge so I’ll have more reading material. I may need to go thru my blog roll and add more writers to it – – not just Mon-Fri bloggers.
Praying for your grandmother. I find this 30 Day blog challenge interesting. I am no writer, but just like to blog about my random thoughts. I was just blogging about really could not think of what I blog about next….think I will take the challenge too.
Can’t wait to read your posts. I really do like you writings.
Glad to hear your grandmother’s doing better. I would do this challenge with you if I had a blog.
Thanks for the well wishes for my grandma!
This is a great idea! I love it…I wonder if it could fit SATC into every one of those. I bet I totally could.
I’m glad you grandmother is doing better lady 🙂
Glad to here Grandma’s doing better!!!! I’m excited about these 30 days….