writing – Blainey's Life Safari

The other day a much younger friend said,
“You are sure doing a lot of writing on your vacation. All that blogging seems like a awful lot of work to be doing.”

She went on to ask me questions about why I wanted to start writing as if this “writing” process started on the day I made my first blog post. I went on to explain that I have been writing, reading, and reading books about writing for a very long time (perhaps more than half my life). I didn’t just start writing yesterday.

Whether or not I wanted to admit to it…I was and had been a writer for a very long time. It was only the fear of rejection that I nurtured more than my aspirations that prevented me from sharing what I have written outside of my very small circle of friends who are also aspiring writers. Read more

This is not a real post. Or at least not the post I I intended. It is more like an update since I have been missing in action for over 48 hours. I arrived safely in Paris on Thursday as planned. After putting the finishing touches on my post “Kayaking While Channeling Nicole” I was both physically and emotionally exhausted, so I took a little break from posting (I say posting and not writing because I am always writing something most of which I do not post) to explore Paris.

Yesterday I was out and about early determined to beat the lines at the Eiffel Tower (you will read more about that later). I spent the rest of the day sightseeing and walking the street of Paris. At the end of the day I was tired, but I was determined to post. That was the plan until…. Read more

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