My first #IWSG post

What the heck is #IWSG, you might ask…. well, it stands for Insecure Writer’s Support Group, and I discovered them last month while doing the #AtoZChallenge.

#IWSG is posted by a various group of bloggers the the first Wednesday of every month. As the site says: “Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic.”

Today, as I am tired (darn insomnia last night), I shall offer a bit of funny and a wee bit of encouragement.  I have long thought of writing a series of posts on “So You Want to Be a Writer”, so this will fit right in. And, it’ll (hopefully) get to me to publish something at least once a month. 🙂  (Tho of course, I plan on doing more: I’ve got several editions of The Questions lined up, and I have the Reflections post to write for #AtoZChallenge, and lots more swimming in my head.)

I absolutely *adore* Calvin & Hobbes, and this is probably my favorite cartoon of all:

As writers, we often have many many many reasons why we aren’t writing. We’re often the creators of our very own BLOCK, and we put it on our very own desks (or writing space), and walk around it, and look at it, but don’t remove it. The BLOCK can be anything from doing laundry to paying bills to doing anything and everything but writing.

And yes, I am guilty of this, far more often than I want to admit.

That’s partially why I participated in #AtoZ… to get my brain back on writing. And it has, and I hope to continue the trend. And I hope my fellow writers will simply pick up the block, move it, and get back to slinging words.