Having written all my life, I thought blogging might be a good outlet for me. I admired how Julie Powell had brokered her Julia Child cooking project into a book deal, and thought maybe I could follow suit on some level.
But I was surprised to discover myself strangely shy online, unwilling to reveal enough about myself to make Linnet very interesting! I didn’t realize how much I cherished my privacy, and how unwilling I was to expose myself and family to public scrutiny. And unfortunately, these hermit-like impulses seem quite antithetical to blogging!
I considered this a failing at first (a uniquely 21st century one), but have gradually accepted that I’m just not cut out for a tell-all sort of project. Maybe not even a tell-some kind of project!
But there must be alternatives, surely, that will keep me writing publicly without making me so intensely uncomfortable, and my new year’s resolution is to find them. So the Linnet will live, I hope!
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