Doing it scared: Opening up the “group chat” and starting new conversations for a new audience.
What’s New
I’m on Buy Me A Coffee! Why? Because I’m trying to overcome overthinking everything. Yes, I do mean EVERYTHING. I’m an overthinker, and it keeps me from a lot of things. I’m the type of person who will want something to eat, not know what they want to eat, deliberate for hours over whether or not I want to pay for the thing I’ve finally found to eat, and then I will sometimes still not get anything at all. Yes, all of that to end up eating cereal.
Doing It Scared
But, this isn’t about cereal. This is about me always wanting to write for a wide range of audiences and being too afraid to give it an honest try. Yes, I have that one essay in the preemie anthology, but I haven’t done much since then. Who says I have to wait to be formally published to write? I know better than that! Still, I am drowning in shoulda-coulda-wouldas and am throwing myself a life preserver. I am doing this scared, but this wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve done something scared.
My Expectations
Honestly, I didn’t know what Buy Me A Coffee was until recently. How it works is that you can show your support by “buying me a coffee” and leaving a message. Here’s the thing: You don’t have to buy anything. If you can, that’s great. If you can’t, that’s fine too. Stay for the Sunday vibes. If this works out, I may eventually do memberships where I share writing templates that I’ve created and actively use, offer monthly writing critiques, or do monthly lives for Ask Me Anything. That’s the thing. I don’t know. I’m equal parts excited and nervous.
As you can see, this has also prompted me to dust off my blog. (Sorry to you, blog. My bad.)
Your Expectations
Keep them low! I’m joking…a little. Right now, I’ve made a goal to have a new post up every Sunday. I have good intentions. However, there’s a particular road that’s been said to be paved with good ones, so I’m not sure where that leaves us.
I guess you can expect what you’ve always come to expect from me–words that come from me to you with a little hope sandwiched between a lot of understanding.
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