I have always imagined myself a published author…on top of multiple P.h.D’s and a screen write or two. A bit ambitious but still, something I still want to accomplish before I die. But I have always hit a brick wall in my writing. Again, I can create characters and world build my little heart out. But, when it comes to putting words on paper, whether it’s actual paper or a computer screen, I freeze up. The dreaded ‘writers block’ rears its ugly head and mockingly plagues me all the while its cousin self doubt points and laughs at me from the corner. But there is something that has been said to me recently that I have not actually considered, ‘write what you know’. I know a lot. Seriously. But its more of the mish-mash trivia information that would only come of any use in some small town game at a bar. However, I know Anthropology and history. So, for my next adventure into writing, I will be digging into these two topics….stay tuned.

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion” – Tony Hsieh

I might be preaching to the choir, but have you ever started a hobby or something you have always wanted to do and end up dropping it? Leaving it behind because you either have no time – life gets in the way or you can’t find anymore ways to make the thing stick? Yeah. Me too. I’ve had my fair share of hobbies and passions that I tried. A still new Nikon camera sits in my closet collection more dust than finger prints. I have participated in a few years of the NaNoWriMo trying my best to write something that would be novel worthy. I think the best I got was somewhere around twenty thousand words? I’ve even tried my hand at a few blogs, which has never turned into anything and was always deleted. But nothing truly seems to stick. Or me sticking with it. The only thing that I have stuck with through everything is Anthropology. But that is another post in itself. I guess what I am hoping to happen with this blog, is that I will stick with something and make something of it.

So here it is….the most uninspired first post that explains why I am even trying to do what everyone else on the internet is doing. Let’s just see how long I can stick with it?