Kelly Gibbons, artist and writer, about me

Saturday, July 17, 2004

I'm still having a very hard time trying to figure out what it is I want to do with writing and art. I get pulled in so many directions and then I get confused. Then I find another book or website and get pulled in yet another direction and become even more confused and undecided with what I want to do. Then I become very unproductive with writing and art. I stop because I don't know what to do.

The learning becomes so overwhelming that I don't make the time for the doing. I get so wrapped up in trying to find out how to do it right that all my energy is wasted before I have time to actually do the things I want to do. There comes a time when too much information is just as bad as not enough.

It is time to stop the insanity. It is time take a rest and it is time to get back to basics. Time to start writing and painting and drawing again.

I'm also trying to figure out what I want to do with this blog. When I started my adventures in writing, I felt that having a website and blog were so important. I guess I felt this way because all the people I considered so successful (or in a place I wanted to be) had them. Don't get me wrong, I think they are good and useful and serve a purpose and I have met so many nice people and have found some great resources, but I don't think they hold as much importance as I once thought they held.

Since I started this I have struggled with what it should be about. Should it be dedicated to writing and art? Should it be inspirational, things I learn along the way? Should it be about personal things --what's going on with me now? Should I include artwork on this site or have another one for that (the reason I started A SunnyK Kind of Day)?

I started other blogs so I could include all the things I enjoy, but it became too difficult to maintain them all. I found myself getting frustrated having to post to all of them. I also want to be creative and unique, and I don't want to look as if I have copied off of someone else, so I have stopped myself from formatting this site like some of my favorites. I don't want to be boring either. It's not that I write for an audience, but hey I am a writer and an artist and the business part of it is about getting noticed, so I want people to read.

I think I am going to slowly merge it all into one site, and stop worrying about what others might think. One site about me, me the writer, the artist, the mother, the wife, the runner, the person. It makes sense to me.

posted by Kelly @ 7/17/2004 06:56:00 AM

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