A confession

Hi, my name is Sarah and I like to write BUT I do not like people to read and judge my writing. What a sensitive Sally. Writing this blog has helped this tremendously. What made me so nervous writing the first blog doesn't bother me quite so much now. And I'm working on sharing my other writing too, letting go enough to let others 'proof read' for me. This is because if writing becomes a serious vocation for me there is absolutely no value to being scared of putting it all out there.

I'm finding that in a weird twisted way it's like having a baby. A writing baby if you will. Once you've been in hospital giving birth and you've had a conveyer belt of staff looking at your nether regions you almost get to the point of "who's looking at my bits today? Have you seen them yet? Let's have a look then". Getting (letting) people to read my work has been a bit like that.

My bravest moment was getting my closest non uni friend to read my work. I was so scared, I put it off for weeks- then I ripped of the bandaid and asked her to take a look. "Read this for a laugh" I said jokingly, but I secretly wanted her to like it at least a little bit. And she's features in some posts as well, which made it more nerve wracking. Thank god she was nice about it ;)

So, I am hoping to turn this into "Hi, I'm Sarah.  Would you like to see what I am working on right now?"