Putting Out

Dinner last night with a friend of more than 20 years surfaced the topic of writing, and how much he wished he had a vehicle for putting it out there. I suggested a blog, and made the case that his life contained both (i) available time and (ii) interesting thoughts/experiences that others (maybe) would read.  But at minimum, a blog would be a vehicle to putting himself out there, a key starting point.

My sense is that his willingness to blog will be as direct a window into how serious his intent is, and my further sense is that the first post will feel (unnecessarily) like he’s writing a mission statement.  He’s likely written hundreds of thousands of words since he’s been using email, but the first blog post will feel monumental — defining perhaps — and there’s no good reason for that.  It’s just putting it out there.

So with that, I re-engage and re-commit to putting it out there.  It really wasn’t that hard.  Whether it’s any good is another matter, but at least it wasn’t that hard.