Melissa Roth -- Freespeak Blog

So many thoughts swirling around in my head.   I am finding it increasingly difficult to sleep.   I have to express.   I have to start sharing the words tumbling through my brain.   I have made notes and probably processed a trillion thoughts and ideas in the last few weeks, but alas no blog has emerged. The thing is I have been busy.   I know, I know … old excuse.   It was easy to put off blogging about things that have been going on in deference to more pressing deadlines. After all, this is self-directed and I have no deadline other than my own.   Choices.   Life can be so annoying sometimes.   Always boils down to choices.    What am I choosing and what criteria am I using to choose.    That is the question.   I choose.    I have been choosing to respond to external deadlines – deadlines imposed by other people's needs and expectations.   I have chosen to ignore my internal deadl...

This has been a year of discovery my inner blogger.   I have posted 118 blogs this year since March 4.   I have opened myself and my life to the public and to my friends in new ways.   I feel as though I have emerged from hiding. My initial challenge was in getting past the critical voice.   There is a creative voice and a critical voice fighting inside every writer, in fact in every person trying to do something creative.   I would get so caught up in trying to make whatever I wrote come out to the perfect number of words, use correct grammar, and get exactly the right words that I was unable to produce anything.   I had pages and pages of ideas.   Finally, I decided to just start posting things without regard for editing.   Just get it out.   Get the creative process going and start to feel more comfortable with it and then tidy things up.   It has been unnerving, exciting, and freeing.   When I started I only tol...