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You want to know what my greatest worry was when I started blogging? It wasn't that I wouldn't have any followers or that no one would like my writing. My initial worry was that once I start blogging that I would run out of ideas and start repeating myself. My first post on Mandy Calvin's Quill was in April of 2009. I continued writing to an audience of zero until September when I stopped. I dropped the blog like a wormy apple and left it on the ground to rot. Then in March 2010 I came back with fresh ideas and a thin layer of determination, I had looked at the abandoned blog remembering my vision of it and I was lured back. I was still a little shaky, only posting once or twice a month. Somewhere late 2010 I had finished writing a post and was about to click the publish button. I lingered in thought as the problem began to crystallize in my mind. When you send a post out to be publicly viewed by the world wide web, anyone could see it and steal your idea. When that post is published, that's one idea used and ideas were sacred stones to me that were to be spent with excessive frugalness. But I was over looking something, which I realized at that moment.
Ideas are a renewable resource. I pride myself to be creative yet I was frightened to set my thoughts free. My lack of confidence only hindered all that I could be. Because not only are ideas renewable, they keep getting better. By letting an idea set sail, you challenge yourself to do better. For some that's a daunting task because they believe they will never exceed their own standards if they try their best. It's similar to what I suffered, not wanting to put my best effort of posting original content because I thought I couldn't keep it up. Just because I can't think of a thousand brilliant ideas instantly doesn't mean I can't think of something later. As long as I keep experiencing life, there will always be a flow of ideas.
In case you were wondering I did finally click the publish button on that post after all that thinking. Months later, on New Years of 2011, I made a resolution to write a minimum of three posts a month and to put my best effort into them. We make it to present day and I've kept that resolution up to now and I intend to keep doing it.
I hope you enjoyed reading this because there are a lot more ideas from where this came from.
