New Years Challange

This past December I was discussing with a coworker and friend what we were going to do in the upcoming year. I told him I wanted to focus in on my writing. I had been thinking about pursuing a degree in creative writing but then I got to thinking, what if people don't like my style? Do I really want to dedicate four years to something that might prove to be worthless? He was telling me about his sister who does writing for a couple blogs and asked if I had a blog. I laughed and said no. I didn't think I had what it would take to make a good blog. What could I contribute that hadn't been done before? I was pretty sure anything I wrote would be rather lame. Sad for someone who wants to be an author right? Then he told me that my New Years Resolution should be to create a blog and post at least once a week. I thought about it for a second and said fine.

The next day I thought about it some more. What was I going to write about? Then I thought OK, just come up with a title, and maybe the rest will follow. When I thought of Write Place, Write Time I thought it was perfect. The play on words was funny and it wasn't too specific therefore possibly restricting me further. My coworker asked about the blog and I told him my title. He asked when I was going to start and I told him I would start January first. Seemed appropriate, it was a New Years Resolution after all. Plus it gave me time to come up with something, anything, to write about. But then I drew a blank. For two weeks I thought about what to write. January first came, and past. January third my coworker asked me, so when are you writing that blog? I confessed to writers block. He said you can't have writers block if you have nothing written. (An opinion I disagree with by the way.) I told him I had thought about posting why I was writing, but wasn't really sure about it. He said I should just do it. So I am. I am writing a blog for which I have no idea what to write because of a challenge to make this my New Years Resolution. I don't know if I'll be back next week or not but at least I can say I tried. Isn't that the most any of us can hope for?