It’s that time of month . . .when we examine how insecurity and exhaustion
roll over us like waves on a rocky, stubborn shore.
A month ago, I felt truly zestful after the finish of A to Z,
and I really didn’t know what to write about for IWSG, except for the fact that
I felt encouraged by others and I wanted to go out and encourage more bloggers.
Since then, a rising tide of blogging
insecurities made me want to just bury my head under my laptop, and turn off
the internet connection to the world.
My blog is kind of a mess. It’s random. I live on West coast
time. I don’t visit other bloggers enough, and when I do, my comments suck. I
don’t blog meaningfully enough. I don’t give any amazing advice, or tips for
writing, or . . .enough of whatever makes an awesome blog. I’ve been blogging
for three years, and I still have yet to master some of the blogging technical
basics. What am I thinking, blogging? I started this thing with no research,
background, or even knowledge of blog or web platforms, and just started
winging it. I still feel like that’s what I do most of the time. My google
reader list is totally unorganized and I can barely keep track of posts that I
have read, want to read, or blogs that I haven’t visited in far too long. I get
too distracted. I’m just not good enough at this blogging thing, I can’t seem
to keep up . . .and well, what really makes me feel insecure about blogging is
that I just don’t feel like I’m good enough at any of it.
Do you ever feel like that?
And what do you cling to when you feel pounded by a storm of
waves?
Join in on the fun of sharing your deepest, most painful writing insecurities and helping others see past their own. Go to Ninja Captain Alex's latest host post for ISWG here.BTW - when those waves of insecurities hit me, I just pray, and keep writing anyway.
