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.
