My Stache of Ideas -- where I'm practicing my writing
For my inaugural post, I thought I’d touch on what has taken me so long to finally contribute to this project Sar and I have been discussing for months.
I’ve tried blogging twice before, with little success. After some soul searching, I discovered that I didn’t choose to stick with it because I wasn’t writing about topics that are authentic to me. I did them as experiments in ‘putting myself out there’ and ‘I need to blog because I need to promote my small business’.
Sar has always been the more talented writer between us; for as gifted a creative writer/poet she is, reading poetry gives me a headache. I couldn’t write a poem if you paid me.
We are both artistic, some of our talents overlap but most of them do not. Together we are diverse—I enjoy jewelry making, leather work, fiber arts, sewing. Sar is a very talented writer and has a knack for creating quirky, whimsical paper goods (she’s also gifted at napping, if you’re wondering).
And while writing doesn’t come as naturally to me, it is something that I’m challenging myself to explore and improve on this year. I don’t envision myself becoming the type of person that goes to the coffee shop and journals in my notebook for hours, but I do hope to write a page a day this year and (of course) contribute on this little blog of ours.
As twins, we are strongly bonded. We’ve been close our entire lives and this little collaboration is a natural extension of our complimentary passions and interests. I’m excited to see where this goes!
Tell Us: Have you collaborated before? Do you have any advice for us?
-JCM