The first step to starting a blog is naming the damned thing. It's at this point that I realized how many people there are on earth, how many of them are blogging and how few words we have in the English language. I tried "pointless", as most of my endeavors are, "clueless", clearly I'm not alone here, "random", I frequently am, and "A-D-D writer with nothing to say". That was available, but just too long. I finally, no eventually (not dead yet), settled on my pen name, Connie George (for now). I went with the hyphenated version and www.connie-george.blogspot is born. So what am I going to write about and why on a public blog?
I guess the blog format is simply to keep it somewhere where I can find it, not my job, is blogger.com's job. Blogger.com is good at keep it all organized, together and readily available. As for why ---------- I dunno. I'm working that out now. As an admittedly A-D-D personality, and who isn't today, blogger assists greatly with organizing me. As an integrator, that's what I do best, I'll need to make a list and sort out the reason as I go. Now's a good time:
1. I'm going freakin nuts here in cold rainy New England. I need to focus on small things that keep my mind busy and prevent a melt down. I tried woodworking, worked well, but kind of expensive and requires -- uhm, wood, that is increasingly more expensive and rarely available. And the garage is just too damned cold to work in 6 months out of the year.
2. My troubles are small, but weigh on me. I need to keep busy. I wrote a book for my daughters during a nasty divorce, really helped. I figure this would help with the smaller stuff too.
3. My wife thinks I need to do this because of items one and two.
4. I enjoy writing and would like to develop my skills, or acquire some, through practice. My biggest issue is this damned ADD. I rush through everything I write, don't have the patience to take the time to write fully, much less edit properly. I figure writing in a potentially public forum will force me to slow down and focus a bit. Maybe even read what I've written before hitting the Publish Post button.
Here goes...
