Growing Pains

An Alien To The Status Quo

A Letter to the Reluctant Blogger

A Letter to the Reluctant Blogger

Dear Me

I stole borrowed the name reluctant blogger from Ntomby because it suits me perfectly. I am a very reluctant blogger. Content with content from other bloggers but trying to push myself to be a better wordsmith. To actually smith words.

It is day one of the Afrobloggers Winter Blogging Challenge of 2020. Every year, I promise myself that that will be the year I am fully part of the challenge. Every year. But something always keeps me from being all in.

I usually start out with great intentions. I am usually pumped. I tell myself I’m going to write it out. I look at the daily prompts and think, I can do this. It can’t be that hard. And then the day dawns and I just can’t do it. What happens is that I am either too busy, or I start to write the post and never complete it.

Then there’s the problem of procrastination. Every writers nightmare. I procrastinate myself out of the challenge with pretty good excuses. I’ll do this tomorrow. And when the day dawns, I think about how I didn’t write the day before and I guilt myself out of writing that day too. And then I do what I do best, read what others have written.

Maybe this year it will be different. Maybe I will do better. Maybe I will be good about keeping the challenge, may be I won’t. Maybe I will wake up each morning and write. Or maybe I will skip a few days. Maybe I’ll lose steam after a few days or maybe I’ll run this gauntlet and come out victorious. Maybe my muse will behave and won’t flake. Maybe my muse will break my heart and like the heartless person she can be, she will turn heel and walk away. Or maybe I will just rant my way through that challenge.

I don’t know. I can’t tell that future. I don’t know what will happen. I do know that I will read all that is written by all you wonderful bloggers.

Alls I know is that my name is Mable, I am your resident reading junkie and this year, I am going to try and get through this challenge.

All my love

Mable….

20 thoughts on “A Letter to the Reluctant Blogger

  1. Hi Mable…
    I am shaking my locks in approval
    This looks like a very good start, ambiguous but good I love how you are keeping all the options open sneaky sneaky
    ~B

  2. 👌👏👏👏👏 nicely done, ranting about not writing while writing…God I love you and your words

Leave a Reply to A Letter to the Reluctant Blogger – Part 2 | Growing PainsCancel reply

Back to top
%d bloggers like this: