And as I reread my comment to Deb's wonderful post, I realize I have a profound fear... of how I may be judged if I use improper punctuation, forget capitalization at times, and likely make a couple spelling mitakes, typos etc.
Not to mention my overuse of "etc." - and my love of dashes... and my addiction to ellipsis...
(And I just had to rework that previous line to preserve the parallel structure... it's an affliction).
Yet I realize that my FEAR - is of embarrassment - that as an English teacher - I SHOULD be perfect, at least, grammatically speaking ;)
(Now, I am not proposing turning spell check off and blogging in text-speak and twitter shorthand - and I do fear for how texting and twitter will transform the English language...)
But being perfect - especially when it comes to blogging, can be paralyzing - I will never post.
Or debilitating - I will never sleep - I quell the impulse to revise and edit. I teach the 6 am... in less than 6 hours now - and need sleep!
So here's to 2012: Posting without fear - and with a few typos - many dashes -
and letting go of the THINKING I SHOULD BE PERFECT.
Or always profound. Just sharing thoughts, ideas, fears, comments, inspirations...
Deb, please, keep sharing. We all have issues posting :) Let's not be shy.
Cheers to letting it go! And posting more in 2012.
Bamaste,
Kevin
3 comments:
Hi Kevin!
I love your posts. Your writing has so much energy and passion!
I understand your comments about fear of typos and word choice. When I first posted to a blog, I was hung up on analysis paralysis. I have worked to let go and to not fear what I was meant to write at that point in time.
I like to think of a blog as a conversation. It is a place to share what is on your mind in the safe confines of LY365:-)
Have a great day!
Best
Sandee
Bamaste!
Love it!
I think more of us have this "issue" than we know. I am an analyst by trade, my in-laws (including husband) are all very intelligent and know the English language well and I hang out with some pretty smart people. How did that happen??? I don't always speak correctly ( or as I say many times cpeak sorrectly), so when I write I can get very hung up on grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. I agree with Sandee, let's be very forgiving. Maybe I'll post more :-)
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