I IS OK

I IS OK

When I sent my story called “Sleigh Ride” to my family and friends, my son called and said he thought I should have a blog so that I could continue the writing I’ve done the past several years.  My reaction was that I was computer illiterate and didn’t think I could handle such a thing.  I only had seen one blog which made no sense to me, the writer just rambled on with total nonsense about someone who had died and a recipe she was making.

The next thing I see is my blog complete with a picture I had painted. I was expected to come up with a title and start off running.  My writing would be typed on Word, cut, pasted then posted.  I had troubles doing attachments to e-mails so how could I function? I didn’t even know what cut and paste meant.

I’m not that familiar with Facebook, never having seen a page.  Our cell phone is mystery, I can’t take a picture or do a text message.  It always seemed to me these people are so self-absorbed they want to tell the world how remarkable they are.

 Now I’ve become one of them.  My first blog was so filled with I’s that I was ashamed yet, I didn’t know what to do.  I couldn’t write in the third person and had no other frame of reference.  Write about what you know is what all writers are told.  So I write about what I know and who I know and it’s all non-fiction.  The audience I’m writing for is my children and grandchildren and my future great-grandchildren because I want them to know me and who I am as a person.

So I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s OK to use I’s.