The messy main desk

Maybe I'm getting this whole blog thing figured out.

I have three active blogs now, and I've been wondering what to do with them. Early this morning, as I tried to get back to sleep, I may have figured it out.

This one--Blogger--will henceforth be my main blog. I can write anything here, since nobody stops by to read it. Posts, vents, fantasies, secrets, wishes ... they all can go here. Projects that I start and don't complete. Stories with no point or rhyme or reason. That's what Blogger will be for.

And then, when I do write something for my friends and the blogosphere, that can be posted to Efx3 and Vox and/or wherever else I'm writing at that time. But Blogger is stable and increasingly friendly, it saves automatically (as does Google Documents, where I had been preparing posts until now--makes sense, since Google runs both of them), and maybe this is the way I'll try it for a while.

I mentioned Google Docs. It presently has several posts I have been working on for a while and that still aren't quite finished. One has been in the oven about a month. This is a problem I have--this perfectionism. You wouldn't think so, but I struggle with that. A lot of the stuff I do is sort of half-assed. I use a "good enough" standard--it's good enough for now.

But my writing is something I take pride in. I work hard at it, and I want everything to be just right. Every word, every phrase, every metaphor. I want them all to be just right. I read everything I write over, looking for things I can say better. I am my own worst critic, for sure.

But here, I can relax and just let it flow where it wants. If it doesn't make sense, so what? If it offends, that's your problem. If it isn't finished, then maybe it will be someday. Or not. Then, when something is ready for others to read, I can send it to Efx3 and Vox. But this is going to be the messy main desk where the real action takes place.

Yeah, maybe this can work.