Writer's Dilemma

I have a hard time writing on this blog. Its not necessarily that I am short of material. Believe me I have done enough thinking lately that I could fill pages and pages with "thoughts for the journey". I think for me it is a hesitation to share my ideas with others. Now, don't get me wrong. I often share my thoughts with others through conversations, emails, and the sort- so I am not completely against the idea.

Yet, as someone whose dream it is to write a book and publish it someday- I am gun shy when it comes to posting my thoughts upon the public forum called the Internet. What if I write something and someone borrows it and uses it as there own? This is a real issue with the easy access of the Internet for someone who, like myself, would love to write for a living. So I suffer from the writer's dilemma of wanting to share what I write, but being afraid of someone taking my thoughts and using them as their own.

Take for instance this small scale incident that happened to me lately. I'm working for a non-profit and I designed a fundraising campaign to send out to our Internet community of supporters aka. our facebook friends and email contact list. A couple weeks after sending out my email, we received a reconstructed volunteer application that a local group formatted for their employees to encouraged them to volunteer. When I read over their plea, I was struck by the familiarity of their words. They were mine. Needless to say there was no indication that they had "borrowed"these words. I was both flattered and horrified by the prospect of them thinking my words were powerful enough to use. The problem is- they were my words and not the person's who "borrowed" them, but I am sure no one knows that.

Thus, this writer's dilemma.

After two years of silence. Well almost...

I haven't blogged in two years. It is about time.
Writing was very therapeutic for me, but seminary happened. Masters degree= lots of writing which in turns = not wanting to write anything I didn't have to. Thus my blog writing days took a hiatus.

However, I find myself now in a place where I need writing therapy. I need something to help soothe my soul. I am transitioning. Transitioning from a life within the academy, a life with a "call" to a life I didn't expect- in my mid twenties with a volunteer job and living at home with my parents.

Um. This is not what they told me would happen post-education.

So this blog will be thoughts for the journey as I try to rediscover myself and where I go from here.