It's strange that I would join hitRECord because someone urged me to do it. I started posting because someone said it would be a good way to get me going creatively. Unfortunately, that wasn't what happened. Instead, I found myself trying to please others. I wasn't doing it for myself and it became harder and harder to post, every single thing that came out of my mind was ridged and terrible. Even if it was just this one person I was trying to please, the task at hand became incredibly daunting.

Over the past few months, I got my groove back, so to speak and started to write again. The process was so freeing, so different from what I first posted on here. It was while I was revising a short story that I realized that I was writing better because I wasn't pleasing anyone. I was doing it for myself and I was happier for it.

So, I'm starting over. For myself. Hopefully, I'll be happier for it and what I write, what I produce, will be more genuine because of it. Hopefully, who I really am as a writer, a creator, will show itself through the process.