{W}rite-of-Passage

November 30, 2009 by Miss

Well, here it is. My last post of November which means that I’ve completed my third year of NaBloPoMo. I don’t know why it takes a full calender year for me to forget that this takes the fun out of blogging. Then again, I have so much trouble with it the other 11 months of the year, sometimes I don’t know why I bother.

In a blogging community that is, at times, filled with levels of greed and fame whoring, writing and reading blogs has changed for me. I used to enjoy it. I still do at times. I read quite a few amazing people who touch me with their words and their lives. And then I click on another blog and its an advertisement in the form of a contest, pimped every which way. We sell our souls for free stuff, for page hits and our integrity suffers.

And then something wonderful comes along.

{W}rite Of Passage – Taking the challenge to write well

I can’t express how grateful I am to Mrs. Flinger for acting on a feeling that many of us have been having lately. Wondering where all the good blogs have gone. They are out there, hidden amongst the rubble that our community is turning into, in some places. Not to say that this community isn’t a strong one, it’s just that it’s lacking in some places and one big place is the words, the simple concept that brought us all here in the first place.

The first challenge to get our brains working was to write of an embarrassing story. I’ve literally been wracking my brain for the last day to think of something. I’m just not that girl. When something potentially embarrassing happens to me, I laugh it off. I’m usually the first person to laugh at myself, as I see the shock of me falling on my butt or on my face registers on the face of another person. I even asked Nic for help and as she rattled off lists of things that could be embarrassing (all of which no doubt has happened to her, she’s full of stories that one)and I just could not relate to any of them. I burped in a boys mouth while we were kissing once. He was grossed out but I laughed my ass off.

See?

Anyways, I joined this group of writers to challenge myself, and to challenge my writing. If anything, I wish for help to make me a more focused writer. As of now, I’m all over the place and I’m kind of sick of it.