So its been a while..

It's been a while since I've posted my first blog. Unfortunately, time has that funny way of getting away from you. All my good intentions to post something weekly have gone by the wayside.

Maybe it's been a good thing. I've been thinking about the title, "A Work in Progress," and wondering what exactly I should be writing about. Should I write about my life? Should I write about writing a book?

All my life, writing has been a creative exercise for me. It always felt good for me to put the current happenings of my life on paper. It has also been my ambition to write for a living. At first, I thought it would be children's books, since my full time job is teaching. I always saw myself doing both. But two and a half years ago, on September 27, 2008, I decided to write down the ideas that were going through my head for a month.

Surprisingly, everything in my life started to make sense.

Even more surprisingly, I found that I lived for the hours that I could tell the story that was inside me. So I wrote. And it's not always been easy. Still isn't. It is my firm belief that a writer is an artist. They craft pictures with words. A writer is also someone who is easily misunderstood. The characters you write are part of you. They live inside your head and you have a connection to them that only you understand.

So, I hope that you will want to share this journey with me. I know that I've set some ground rules (see previous blog entry), but I'm willing to bend a little. Oh, and I promise that I'll write at least once a week, if not more.

Till next time....

My new adventure

Welcome to my blog, A Work in Progress.

As I sit here and nervously type, I wonder what exactly I should say. Maybe you want to know what I hope to accomplish by doing this blog.

Well, I wonder that too. I've been thinking of doing this for a long time. It usually takes me a long time to make a decision, carefully weighing all the pros and cons, wondering if anyone would really be interested in what I think.

But as I lay awake before dawn this morning, I realized that maybe I do have something to say. There is so little civility in the world these days. It's all about "what's mine" and "my rights."

What a sad place the world has become....

I don't honestly have a plan with this blog. I should, but I don't. Maybe we should start with a few ground rules.

1. I will never post pictures of myself. I'm not that photogenic.
2. I will post pictures of my cat. He loves the camera and is very photogenic (and no, people, I'm not a crazy cat lady, though some close family members may disagree with you).
3. If you read a post and disagree with what I have to say, please keep it clean and respectful. There's too little civil discourse in the world.

That's a good start. If I think of anything else, I'll post it later.

Thanks for reading. Next post, I'll tell you a little about how all of this started....

jen