Writing a blog either daily or close to it can be fun and therapeutic. It allows one to get out inner angers and feelings of frustrations, but also release pent up emotions on many subjects, from romance to politics to just day to day stuff. Writing is not just an emotional release it is a rellease of facts and errors and tears and fears. In the end it may be best for many to write then to pick up a gun or knife. I would rather someone scream, shout, or write it out then get physically abusive or mentally abusive to their partners.
I started writing years ago as a kid to express feelings and emotions i couldn’t openly express, because people would frown upon me for saying it, or to hide deep inner emotions of love, fear, disrespect, anger and frustration that I had towards others for what they did to me or those I love. It was a way to say hey stop it please andleave us be. I think for many writers, it may be the same type of thing.
We all create mystical, magical, romantical worlds where not everything always turns out right, but it doesn’t hurt anyone severly or in real. That is fine by me, as long as I never write a blueprint for murder or danger to another person. I prefer to write romances, mysteries, stories of what happene din my life, my family or of what I know of, like my service life and more. But to each their own, to create a world a person can get lost in for a while through an article, poem or book and watch them either cry, laugh or express pleasure at reading it is amazing to see if you write. You know by the comments, expression, and more that someone enjoyed it all and that gives a writer some satisfaction indeed.
Writing does have it’s down side to it also. Finding Editors to read your work and help correct it and then finding a publisher who will actually print it for others to read is not easy. Too many times publishers will tell you I don’t have the time to read it, or I don’t have the people to read it for us. It doesn’t fit the subject matter we are looking for, or some other reason to say no to it.
I am seeing now a days many writers are self-publishing or putting their works on the internet or getting it published for E-Books only. I am glad to see writers being creative about finding places for their works, but for me I have yet to be printed anywhere except for a poem I did long ago now. SOme of us while we love to write and it is what we do, we don’t always write in book form, or rally know how to assemble one. Nor do we write in article form , so some of us do what we call freestyling and need help assembling it to resemble something worthwhile to read.
No matter what condition or form I write in, I us eit as an emotional and mental release for feelings and emotions an dthoughts that are rambling around inside my head. A way to express words and thoughts I would not ever say to anyone in conversation, but I can write downa nd allow a charactor to say, or it to come through as a lost thought or vision in some form.
Personally I have written many things that had to do with my childhood, growing up, my family, parents, daughters, ex-wife and relatives. Articles on service duties and life overseas as a sailor and on the seas. Every once in a while I will try a romance I lived through but never espressed or even a short sci-fi story I made up. Getting the creative juices flowing is always the hardest part though, because I tend to wander and ramble from one subject to another. As apparent probally to any who read this now can see!.
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