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Give Your Thoughts Some Time to Air
Today, I had an idea about what I wanted to write my blog post about.
It was a fairly personal thing, something that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while and (fairly more importantly) haven’t written all too much about. I even had a Medium publication (that wasn’t my own) that I thought about submitting the story to.
I could feel all of the yes!s and hallelujah!s lining up in my stomach. I thought the time was right.
And then I sat down to write it.
I thought I had the perfect anecdote, a natural starting place for the story. It would let me cast the whole thing into context; the perfect starting block. But when I put my fingers to the keyboard and cranked up the writing tunes, it just . . . didn’t come out right.
Even the part that I thought would be easy to start with wouldn’t sit right on the page. The words weren’t working. To borrow a turn of phrase from John Green, I couldn’t fathom my stars into constellations.
I know what I want to say. I’m just not sure how to do it. And, as someone who finds writing — especially for Medium — as something that comes naturally, quickly, and without too much foresight required, having to think and worry and not have the words come out immediately right is . . . troubling.
