It's been a very long time since I wrote daily. That is not entirely true, as I do churn out fifteen hundred words a day for work. But to sit down and actually set aside time to write, that has been a while.
I'm fumbling, not totally ready to commit to a story or an arc. So why do this? To get into a routine. To get past the embarrassment and self-doubt. And to practice.
Then there's a cover where Christopher Hastings, the writer of Dr. McNinja, says "I got tired of wanting someone's permission to put out my work."
Let's look at the list of permissions that my work needs before it is put out: project facilitator, project manager, planning supervisor, planning chief, publications department, publications supervisor, deputy director, and director. That's eight, and we haven't even gotten to the elected officials.
I had an interesting conversation today with a co-worker who really was hostile to putting a lot of personal information online. We talked through generational differences and some of my concerns about floating different information on line.
Then I pointed out the issue of self-branding. How ambitious professionals are going to have to promote in the digital age. We're going to have to put ourselves one line, not the self-immolating celebrity style gossip dumps, but a constant stream of work in multiple forms.
Old systems that prevent that, including staid academic journals, are being destroyed. There is no hope that a backwards backwater government bureaucracy is going to survive.
So that's why I'm here. There's voice things and practice things and simple routine things. And a whole lot of request for patience.
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