Tulelake, CA— Keep doing it and something to think about
It makes it hard when you sit down and try to think about something that is important enough to write about that so you can share with others. I am far from being the best writer in the world. But at least I try and make an effort everyday to write something that can be shared with others.
Because it is a way to communicate thoughts or some thing things other people have not thought about or taken the time to think about. Not many people care to sit down and put words or thoughts down on a daily basis like I do. It is one of my favorite things to do, a part of me that I have had since I was first able to read and write.
I remember in the 5th grade when a teacher encouraged me to write after I wrote a Christmas story for her class that year. At that time in my life it did not mean much to me until after all the years have passed and I take the time to look back and those people who influenced us into being what we are today. That is also what I try and do with others that cross my path, I try to encourage them, to be better, than I am. Not just writing but other fields in the realm or creative artist, be it the written word, picture taking, music what ever their hearts desire happens to be.
If that teacher had not crossed my path but only for a short moment encouraged me I would not be doing what I am today. Because as the years went by I did write but I would just write things for me but I still was writing and that is what writers have to do each and everyday, write.
Each day of writing may not be as good as the day before but the idea is to keep writing even if that days piece of work is not great but at least something was written and it was better than not writing nothing at all.
For me as long as the thoughts are flowing and I am writing down those thoughts, then I am OK. Sometimes for me the thoughts seem to flow faster than I can get them written down and that is why I have to do so much editing and correcting of the sentences and grammar and like Ernest Hemingway I am the world’s worst speller, thank God for spell check. Most of the time I go back and spell the word correctly after the red line under the word appears. Other times I have to sound it out so that even spell check can figure out the correct spelling for me.
I at least try and write one or two pages per article or story that it is not too short or too long. Where not only does the reader lose interest, so do I in what ever it is I am writing about. But even one page per day, is 365 pages per year, three pages per day are 1,095 pages a year. Right now I have exactly 283 different articles and posts and my blog does not calculate pages as to pages written, it only gives figures at how many hits or articles have been read. And 25,000 plus is a lot of hits in my book, not the greatest but it at least means 25,000 stories or articles have been read. Where at this point if you were to take 25,000 hits and divide it by 283 it means 88.339222 people have read each story or post. Some are less and some are more, as then it would average itself out, I guess.
Right now I am at the one page mark and it really is not very much. 594 words at this point now add nine more. 603 words and now I am onto the second page of this story.
Now you take 594 words times 365 days that is 216,810 words per year times 3, that is 650, 430 words. Over a half a million words and if you take 283 posts times 3 to average it out. That would be 840 posts times 594 words would equal 504, 306 words in 11 months. Not bad I guess for doing something I love to do every day and to know that other people I reading what I write too. That is the most humbling and where those that do read what I write, some on a daily basis waiting for the next one to be written and posted, give me the most honor.
Thank you.
Life goes on...
James C. Garland
Written by James Garland of Tulelake News
PO Box 772
Tulelake, CA 96134-0772
Home Phone (530) 667-4744
Cell # (530) 708-7852
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