How to be a writer... or not

Woman of Mystery

The one topic I'd like to write about - I can't because I'd have to be open and honest and share way too much detail about my life and way too much personal information. Well not exactly personal  but just thoughts I have that would give strangers  a far more intimate portrait of who I am than what I want anyone to see. So I guess I'm not a real writer.

So

That leaves me with very little to write about except my fears, food, clothing, my garden (this year I really will plan and be more realistic -- tomatoes will not grow on my shaded balcony), my occasional forays into adventure, my vacations and that's pretty much it.

• my fears -- too boring and who cares
• food -- good photo ops, but maybe too overdone 
• clothing -- would have to pick an angle
• my garden --  grows slowly but good opportunity for other media 
• vacations -- first trip to Turkey; that could be informative

Focus

I need to find something on which to focus -- the year-and-a-half 2012 presidential campaign could be good but for two things: as a member of the mainstream media I don't think I'm allowed to express my true thoughts and secondly... I'm already exhausted by that and it hasn't even become serious yet. We know Barack Obama will run unopposed; the Republican potential presidential hopefuls  list is still filled with "seriously" names that make you just want to shout "get real, please." This might be a topic I could handle, if only I were clever.

But I don't want to work that hard.

I just want to express myself. I just want an outlet for my frustrations -- to express how depressed I became last week when I was given a piece of gossip that I absolutely can not share with anyone; a piece of gossip that slapped me in the face and woke me up to reality; a piece of gossip that made me wonder about my life choices -- not regret them, just wonder about why I chose not to open certain doors or wander down certain paths.

And now what?

At the end of this post, I'm struck by something. Unless you can insert links and multimedia into this crap it's just an online diary and nobody wants to read that.

So here's the challenge -- read this and see if there are any opportunities to link. And then settle on a topic and focus and try to have a little fun.