Thirty-day cleanse
Oh hi! I haven’t been here for a while. I’ve been too busy putzing around on the Internet to write a blog post — for a while now.
That changes now. Last weekend I attended a writing workshop that was part nuts and bolts, part therapy, part motivational seminar. One of the (many) revelations I had over the course of the weekend is something that probably all my friends already figured out: While I never miss a deadline on my paid gigs, I use Facebook to avoid doing meaningful writing. As someone else put it, I tend to use those little status updates to get my writerly kicks — instant feedback, much of it positive! And then there’s the false sense of satisfaction from having “finished” something so quickly. Meanwhile, the longer, tougher subjects are festering away, unwritten.
So anyway. I’m taking a little break from Facebook. I will be updating more often here, though, and everything I post here gets cross-posted there — try not to hold that against me. I need someplace to write down my kids’ bon mots, after all.
