Writing doesn't come easy to me. It is a forced, drawn out thing, and I am usually not very happy with the final product. Writing diary entries for myself to spew out negativity and insecurities is one thing ... no one else ever has to read it. But crafting sentences that others can make sense of and possibly even be entertained by is a whole other story. Given that my chosen career hinges critically on my ability to write about what I've done, I think I had better start working on making it easier =)

The first step of my plan is to stop being so hard on myself and give myself room to write about whatever, whenever. I'm definitely my own biggest enemy when it comes to getting my thoughts out there. Here is a strategy that I'm hoping will help ... write about things I'm actually excited about! Hopefully this will help me associate writing with positive emotions and a sense of accomplishment, and make it easier for me to just flow with the words and not get so caught up in details. Towards this goal, I'm going to start writing little snippets about science topics that I find interesting. Tribe seems as good of a place as any.

Wow. I just sat here for like 5 minutes trying to recall the second part of my plan =) Heh. Umm, my brain hurts. Okay, here it is .. I'm going to make regular "appointments" with myself to write. But these appointments can be for me to write about anything. Some days, hopefully I'll work on manuscripts. But if I'm just not feeling that, I can leave this time open to write about other things, whether it be in a personal journal, in a blog, or on a wall in red crayon ;-)