Although I'm not interested in professional writing, I like the idea of expanding my craft. Though I started my music journey with playing guitar, I was still interested in learning to play piano. I started with chords, then moved to scales, arpeggios and rhythm (ostinato) patterns. It's always a good idea to expand your skills. The technical challenge increases our abilities and this enhancement to our ability to create enhances the soul.
I've been journaling for almost 50 years now. I also do brain dumps and free writes. There's something about having a pen in my hand and a blank page on my lap that makes something deep within me come alive. I'm like mercury pulled to a magnet when I enter any store that has a stationery section. My husband says I have enough to stock my own stationery store!
I've experimented with writing poetry and I've no idea why since I don't enjoy reading it. Maybe I've just come across the wrong ones? I remember liking limericks as a child. Maybe there's some part of me that could come to like poems.
There are the standard five types of essays and, of course, personal essays. Besides these, what other kinds are there? I'm more interested in writing non-fiction than fiction, though I enjoy reading fiction more than non-fiction.
The only epistolary novel I've ever read was Lady Susan by Jane Austen. I didn't care for the main character, but I was intrigued with the idea of writing a story that consisted only of letters. I wonder if she planned out the story before writing it, or if she just let it evolve as she wrote it. I'm interested in apologetics, so a series of letters to an imaginary friend could be an interesting approach.
When I first thought about blogging 18 months ago, it was to write anything I wanted. I made what now feels like a mistake. I researched blogging and how it's "supposed" to be done. I think this has done more than anything else to stifle me as an online writer. I'd read an article about writing daily where the author suggested blogging as a way to encourage me to write regularly.
I don't see myself writing reports, unless it's a book report! I'm not observant at all, mostly because of my vision impairment, but there might be something else in me that causes me to not be interested in my surroundings. I'm more interested in what's going on inside me than around me. I don't make speeches and, since I'm not interested in writing fiction, I can't see myself doing script-writing either. Maybe I'm confusing script-writing with screen-writing though.
