Transition: Returning, Reforming & Re-embarking

I first started writing four years ago, when I first started college.  I created my Blogger and put my typing skills to the test.  I grew tired of Blogger, and had a short affair with Tumblr.  It proved to be inconvenient, less friendly, and a bit controlling.  Alas, I have returned to my old friend, and now will continue on in my new year's endeavor.  I only transferred a few of my previous posts, because this well-meaning project had rocky beginnings.  "It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away," and the ability of the writer to throw it away is crucial.  So I will follow suit;

"...the earlier version remains lumpish on the left, the work's beginning greets the reader with the wrong hand." Annie Dillard

Another alteration is due.  I will not be writing to please anyone.  My initial trek was influenced by a desire to be appealing, entertaining, and readable.  But, as Dillard also said, "I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place." Of course, this is no novel, but the wisdom applies all the same.


So I am left with this reality; I have not ventured a word in over a month.  I moved past the edge of failure, and leapt right off the cliff.  I allowed the day-to-day and misconceptions to cut in on my writing time and content.  My project being the injured victim.  So, here I am. Re-embarking.  My hope is that this will be the last time I start anew.  However, innumerable things can happen in a year, and I am not naive enough to think that some of those will not inhibit my writing.  Fortunately, obstacles can function as inspiration.  There is beauty in everything, that we choose not to see; even in the feeble conceptions of an injured writing project. 

"The reason not to prefect a work as it progresses is that, concomitantly, original work fashions a form the true shape of which it discovers only as it proceeds, so the early strokes are useless, however fine their sheen."