A return to writing...and some interesting inspiration to follow

Someone who knows me very well told me the other day that he thought writing was easy. "Yea, its easy," he said. "I just don't like to do it cause it takes a long time and is so much like doing actual work," this when referring to posting on his blog. It made me think about my writing...mostly the lack there of the past few months. Sure, the holidays and holiday parties and shopping for festive holiday party attire (and shopping for gifts of course) have gotten in the way, which is my excuse. But in the end, writing is not easy for me. Sure words may come easily each time I write but there is so much pressure to put all those words together into something coherent that flows. I mean, it has to be readable; somewhat well-liked by anyone else that might possibly read it (or even find our blog); funny, or at least a little witty; smartly done; moderately interesting; just plain good. Or at least I think it should. Now all of that in one piece is hard to come by I'd say. But, here I am writing again, for the record not as a New Year's resolution, because how many people actually keep those, but because:
1. The more I write, maybe the easier it will become? (Well, it's worth a shot.)
and,
2. I recently met the sister of a great friend of mine from college (we met on New Year's Eve, no less), and this friend had been the inspiration for a piece I wrote for my favorite writing professor back then, Blanche Boyd, a brilliant narrative non-fiction writer who was understandably extremely hard to impress. The time I actually caught her attention was when I profiled this friend, who is unique, to say the least.



And, I've been thinking about that for the past two days, ever since I promised to email the story to the sister. So, what better way to recommit myself to not being too scared or too intimidated or too lazy in the eye of the challenge of writing, than to re-read that profile, that I had such a good time composing, and remember just why I actually love to do something that is so hard. Thanks again, Frack. You are the subject of an off-and-on writer's dreams.