daily blogging

It really isn't all that time consuming ... or, at least it isn't when I'm not overly inspired.

Like right now. I'm just posting for the sake of posting. I'll ramble on a few sentences and be done with it.

But whenever I've got a topic, I will obsess over it as though I'm writing an essay for a class or a column for a newspaper. I might end up rearranging sentences and editing for hour! Nothing I've written is all that long or insightful, either, I can just be very, very picky!

Unlike writing an essay, though, this is fun and not stressful!

Back in college, I used to work for the school newspaper (as did my husband, that's where we met). We'd have occasional columns on the op/ed page.

As I'm writing blog entries, they often come out like my columns would have. I find a topic (well, here I don't necessarily have a topic), and casually ramble on until I've made my point.

While I'm sure I won't necessarily post every day once I no longer have any "obligations" (after Holidailies is over), I probably will still write often. There are plenty of slow days with this "forced" posting, but I think it helps me write more freely on the better ones.

Even when I have nothing to say I can still find a way to ramble on for quite some time.

Like today.