If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh
Like Julie Powell in Julie/Julia I believe I have ADD. The moment Julie started her blog in the movie I got the idea to do the same thing by looking for different 365-day challenges that are found on line. In a span of 10 minutes, I signed up for two 365-day challenges, one is on photography and the other is on writing.
Writing is something I've always loved to do but at the same time it's something I have always been afraid of doing. I won't say I'm the kind of person who knows a lot of brilliant words but I can say I've got a lot of brilliant and not-so-brilliant ideas that I believe are worth sharing.
Like with all the other things I am able to do, I believe that my fear of being judged not being good enough has been stopping me from really working on my writing. As a result I've limited myself to writing my thoughts only in blogs instead of really exploring the possibility of being published. I remain a jack of all trades but master of none.
I really want to write. For me to be able to do this I have to develop thick skin for me to gather enough courage to expose my craft and be critiqued. I plan to begin with this 365-day writing challenge. Wish me luck.
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