Stubbornness and Writing

Who else is still sticking to their New Year's resolution right now? Ever since I lost 50 pounds last year, I've been wanting to get back into it. It's been a rough start but I got back out there again for a walk today.
I'm sure I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't live in Illinois. It's February and already turning humid as hell. What gives?
Oh well. I'm back inside now and ready to get to work. The past week or so has been a complete disaster, struggling to get through a bout of depression. And then my keyboard quit working on my laptop! But not at an ordinary, sensible time of day. Oh no. It quit at 1 a.m. After two and a half hours of attempted fixes, I went to Walmart and bought a plug-in keyboard. THEN, I came back home and stayed up until 7 a.m. to make up for all that lost time. Oh, but the fun didn't end there! The day before yesterday, and into yesterday, I stayed up for 23 hours straight to get a project done for a client. And then I slept for 9 hours. Cassie the Editor Bird was not happy that I wasn't at her beck and call for most of the day. However, we're getting back into our normal routine and Cassie is currently drinking out of my water glass.
Like I was saying in my previous post, writing isn't the hardest job in the world...but that doesn't mean it can't be hard. EVERY job is hard at some point. It's just that many aren't worth the struggle.
Writing is, if you love it. And when you hate it. It isn't about inspiration and passion, although those things certainly exist. However, if you want it to be a job, you need this one thing above all else: stubbornness.
Some might call it determination, in favor of using a prettier word, but it is, at its heart, pure stubbornness. It's a refusal to back down, even when you would rather be doing anything else. It's forcing your fingers to move even when you have your head thrown back with exasperation at just how stupid your story sounds right about now. It's tossing all your bodily needs out the window for a moment to get this one more paragraph down.
It's stubbornness. You need it, because no one is making you write. It's your responsibility, and if the urge never goes away, if you're always aware of it and would be miserable if you never wrote another thing for the rest of your life...then you are a writer and you will return to it time and time again no matter how dramatically you gave up on it last time.
That's writing.
That's stubbornness.
They're one and the same.

First Post! Cute Picture Inside, Too!

"I bought groceries today."
It seems like a pretty mundane thing to say, huh? Everyone has to buy food. We all have to eat. For a lot of people, grocery shopping is a chore and something to dread.
I love it.
I'm spending my own money, making my own choices based around what I need. It's a learning process that will probably turn mundane for me too, sometime in the future. I hope that doesn't happen for awhile, though. I work my dream job every single day. My younger self never would have imagined actually having all this that I daydreamed about for my entire life: living in my own place, working only as a writer and nothing else. Isn't that the dream? And I finally have it.
It's not as perfect as it sounds. Nothing really is, is it? I won't say that writing is the hardest job in the world because I know it definitely is not, but I will say that it's just like any other job: grueling, repititous, and I hate my boss (me) and my coworkers (also me.) However, just the fact that I am here at all to enjoy it and take pride in the little things...
Wow.
Never thought I'd get here.
But, enough of that for now. Hi, my name is Emily, but I would prefer if you call me Blue. I am a freelancing ghostwriter, and I have tried to write a blog before with very little success.
Actually, I've tried to do a lot of things before without success...
But this time will be different, maybe, possibly? I hope so. For once, the future looks pretty good in all directions (except for upcoming tax season. Yikes. Don't look there.)
A little bit about me, I suppose? There's not much I can say at the moment that can't be found in the actual "About Me" section, so take a look there. There's more, of course. There is always is, beneath the surface, but an introductory post isn't the place for those kinds of things.
If you stumble across my blog, I just wanted to say hi and introduce the editor:

That's my Cassie! She's a young parrotlet who loves to bite (me) and chew on things (me again) and climb (still me.) Little devil bird, but I love her to bits. You'll probably be seeing more of her in the future.
So, what's the point of this blog?
To talk about writing, to advertise (sorry, I'll keep it to a minimum, I promise. It'll be announcements and links at the most) to share random thoughts, or toss around websites I like, and to just...connect. I hope you stick around, or at least think Cassie is cute before you leave and forget about me!