Don't Be Nervous

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” -- Sylvia Plath

I caught this quotation in my Twitter feed earlier today. I felt like DiNozzo just getting slapped on the back of the head by Gibbs. (If you watch NCIS, you know what I mean. If not, the names aren't important.) Cue the Twilight Zone music: Those words are exactly what I needed to hear.

I was thinking just the other day that it had been a while since my last post. But I didn't know what to write about. There hadn't been anything particularly eventful. I didn't have anything especially inspiring to write about Independence Day. And I'd sworn to myself that my blog would not resemble some of my junior-high journal: Nothing happening today. Need to get a life.

Then I saw the "self-doubt" bit. Duh...this is certainly not the first time I've dealt with that! (And I know at least one friend in particular who can totally relate.) I'm not writing for a legion of followers. I'm not writing a great American novel. I'm just writing. Working on getting my ideas out there. Sometimes I might have something emotional, or intellectual, or spiritual, or poetic, or enlightening. But until those moments hit me, there's nothing wrong with just writing for the sake of writing. They say you've got to spend money to make money. It only makes sense that you've got to write something to get more ideas to write something else.

And so I shall write. But don't be surprised when I occasionally write about nothing in particular.