52 Essays 2017

It is with great uncertainty that I've accepted this 52essays2017 challenge! With this pledge, I'm so write an essay a week for 52 weeks; so almost a year. Yikes! I am young in the blogging world and still discovering who I am as a writer. Writing is very important to me; I believe everyone should share their story, but my current writing life isn't satisfactory for me. However, friend came to me a week into the challenge, asking if I'd like to join it and be her accountability buddy. I really am not sure I will succeed at this moment. This challenge is all about consistency; I have to make sure I dedicate time to getting this done.

I'm also going to do a little cheating. On my blogger profile there's a bunch of drafts sitting there. I plan to finally send out those articles. I won't concern myself about the relevancy of the topic now; I'll just get my thoughts out there. I also want to use my lacking in writing blog post to be incentive to keep up with this challenge- so my content will all be relevant to my blog.

Recently I've been having internal dialogues about my severity as a writer. I've been convincing myself I'm not serious enough about it, that I don't act like it's my passion. If I'm so crazy about writing, why aren't I getting out more articles? Why am I not more dedicated to it more if I love it so much? These are thoughts I'm resisting. I know I love writing and can go very far with it.

I'm good at this and that I deserve to respect my skills. Although I don't want to be self depriving, I do want to be proactive in better engaging my writing. As I've already stated I need a time to write. I also want to start carrying my notepad. While these essays will be typed, writing throughout the day to get the creative juices flowing couldn't hurt. I also want to expand my vocabulary, and remember new words I come across. Communication is key and I'd like to be able to express myself fluidly. Thinking about language and how to gauge different people different is important as well. And of course staying very connected with my essay buddy will help me in many ways. We've already been very helpful to each other and I'm excited to see how we push our writing and ourselves.

All my writers out there, what advice do you have as I begin this challenge? Have you done it before? Is this your first time doing this also? Talk to me I talk back! Please comment and share this article. I can use all the support you all are willing to offer. I'm very excited to see how this elevates my work and confidence!