Why-oh-why…

So- here goes. For a while, now, I have been struggling with a block within me: creative, personal, fundamental, really. I tried a number of things. I tried counseling of different flavours (depression has been a factor), I tried an Artist’s Way class, I tried reading books. I couldn’t finish the books. I did a photography class to get me going again- but once the term was over, that was it.

What I haven’t tried yet is a visual blog. The though of keeping a blog makes me cringe on various levels: it seems self-indulgent, and I know my prose can get a little purple-ish at times. (Even worse.) I have read some great blogs- witty, insightful, well informed. That’s the Case Against.

However, I have come to realise, that if no-one but me is reading it and it is simply the online version of doing my Artist’s Pages (complete with visual entries), then it could be a useful tool. In recent years, I haven’t had to write much: like a lot of people, my communications are mostly via text or Facebook, or email on occasion. Even emails tend to be short and to the point.

So: if anyone stumbles across this, I apologise for rambling on self-indulgently. I’m just trying to spring-clean my brain, and there’s a lot of crap in there.