Based on what you said about procrastination justification, I see I have a time “issue”. Would I love to blog full time? Oh Yeah! Can I? Not at this time. Will I someday? Definitely!

You are so right! There is a lot of “meat” in the comments to this series. Myself, I am using them to extract ideas for future blog posts. They’ve taught me lots, and from what I’ve learned, I will share.

Those who can write business letters are also writers. Those who write personal letters to friends and family to bring them up to date on the news are writers. Anyone who can connect more than a few sentences together coherently can be a writer. The difference comes with the word “publish” which is why WordPress uses that word on their Write Post Panel. Click it to send your blog post to the WORLD.

Once your writing is public, everything changes.

Writing, like so many things, looks much easier from the outside than from the inside. While working on an article early in our lives together, my husband learned a valuable lesson when a 5 person interview article I was working on got cut from 5,000 words to 1,500. You do the math. That’s 300 words each. It was an indepth cover story on these 5 photographers who specialize in photographing wildlife and nature in Africa. That’s barely enough words to describe what they do let alone their equipment, their tips, and special techniques for photographing and leading tours in a war torn and really wild place.

After two days without sleep slicing and dicing words off every page in agony, he said, “I hated writing. All those years at university, all the papers I had to write – 1,000 words due on Thursday on blah blah – I used to wonder how professional writers do it. How do they come up with all those words. Now, I know the secret. It’s not how many words you come up with. It’s how many you take away that really matters.”

He was so right in so many ways. Editing is the magic in good writing.

As I read through all these comments, I hope everyone rereads them. In fact, I hope they go back to ALL the comments on all the posts within this series.

Do you see all the excuses? Do you see the procrastination justification?

Yet, do you see the possibilities. Do you see the hope?

The great thing about bloggers is that they love to rip and tear things apart, but they love to create. It’s the magic of ripping and building in the process of creation that makes blogging so much fun. I love the truths that are coming out in all these discussions. Wonderful.

Oh, this is so much fun!

Haha. I hate to tell you this, but you’re a writer already. And a good one, at that.

I would love to write a book some day. However, I don’t think that my books is going to be about the same subject as my blog. I have many varied interests…raw foods just happens to have been the thing I have chosen to blog about over the last 2 years, mostly because that was what I was dabbling in right then.

I don’t know what I’m going to write about yet. So I’m slowly figuring it out as I grow and mature. But yeah, someday when I grow up I’d like to be a writer!

Yes, we do want to “do it right” (or would that be “do it write”? ) As Lorelle has reiterated throughout this interview, we need to plan. Without a solid plan, we could easily fall on our face. I’d say you’re on the right track.

We never know where our blogging will take us. Just remember to enjoy the journey.