I started my first blog-like thing around nine years ago. Since then, I’ve started hundreds of little projects making it to various levels of completion. For some reason, I’m starting another one.

I’ve been feeling a bit unproductive lately. I haven’t published as much as I usually do, and with a nasty sinus infection (or something) I’m suffering from at the moment, I haven’t been able to work out or run around. That’s my usual outlet when I feel like I’m not doing enough.

Moreover, a lot of what I publish these days, I publish with an aim. When I write something for Huffington Post, or somewhere serious, I assign it a level of importance which means I have to be wary what I publish, what words I use, and in what order they’re in. When I write there, I write to be read, and to try to have some impact.

I was reminded today (I guess yesterday by this point) of a letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote to a high school class in 2006. “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”

I read those words, and I was motivated once again to put my fingers to the keyboard and words to the page more for myself than for anyone else. I want to feel the flow, and the ease which comes from writing regularly once again, and I want to organize my thoughts more regularly. So, here comes my new blog. We’ll see where it takes me.