A post a day APAD Day Three

~ msgracefulnot

Have you ever heard the expression that opinions are like assholes, everyone has one? The same goes for excuses. For the past several months I have attempted to “make a comeback” on wordpress, only to feel overwhelmed and close the program feeling defeated. In the past, all of my posts have had tags, and pictures. I even attempted to be grammatically correct when I wrote. I am literally sitting here right now SMH thinking I don’t have time for all that.

When I tell a story I always struggle with where to start. You’re probably thinking “start at the beginning dumbass”. Where is the beginning though? For example, when I talk about Einstein. Do I talk about meeting him when I was 15 years old and falling head over heels in love at first sight? Or do I summarize the last 30+ years by saying he is the one I love to hate? When I talk about my family, what am I “allowed” to talk about? What am I allowed to share? When I talk about MS do I have to repeat 1000 times that I am talking about MY experience only and that everyone is different or can I assume that someone knows that?

All of these questions are my excuses for not writing.

After a few beers on New Year’s Eve, (yay for liquid courage) I finally decided to just jump in. ( I do that a lot by the way….just jump in)

Several years ago, I read the words, “If your life was a novel, would anyone want to read it”. I wonder about that all the time. Is my story a good story? If I wrote a book about myself would it be a comedy or a tragedy? To be honest, I’m not sure what people would think. Let’s find out shall we?

This week I would like to spend some time talking about the “characters” in my story. (Yay I found a place to start)

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So hard when someone says tell me about yourself...what do you want to know?

12 thoughts on “A post a day APAD Day Three”

  4. we all go through this Grace. The reason I have been blogging again is that i stopped overthinking content and format and just wrote about what was on my mind. Sure, I edited the posts but I let it flow and I think my writing has improved and I am able to articulate my intent more easily

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      1. I’ve noticed your blogs are shorter. That’s good. You used to put a tremendous effort into your blogs and they were great but I know it’s intimidating to sit down to. Now you’re shooting from the hip and keeping it simple. Quality content

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