To my surprise, I have actually been told by a couple of readers that I have been slacking on my web log. On one hand I find this very affirming, since I suppose it means there is some demand for my writing. On the other it is a bit distressing since I have not been doing enough to meet said demand.
I heard somewhere once that writing is never finished -- it is merely abandoned. Writing will never reach the level of perfection that we writers desire for it. We aren't God, but we wish we could be so capable. We have to be content with what we have been able to produce, imperfect as it is, because we won't produce anything much better if we work hard on it for another ten years, and we certainly won't improve it at all by our deadline.
That's a good thing for me to learn in approaching this particular project in my life. I often start to write something and then I leave it in the "draft" section because some sentence here is not quite what I'm trying to say or some word there may rub certain people the wrong way, or some readers might respond in this way to that argument and then dismiss whatever else I have to say, or I haven't figured out a clever enough way to end the post.
For all these reasons, and because I have been rather busy in other areas of my life, I have only managed to do a handful of posts in May. So I will now try something new. I will try each day (or as often as possible) to post something up here, and after 30 minutes to an hour max of work on it, I will simply abandon it. I will hit "publish" and what will be will be.
The most difficult thing about writing for me is letting go. So now I'm working on letting go. If any of the imperfections listed in the third paragraph come glaring through in a post, I welcome comments to that effect. Either way, enjoy!
Good idea!