Guilty!

I have a very bad habit of over-editing my work. My Inner Editor is constantly getting in the way of my creative muse and often very difficult to shut off. That is the main reason it’s taken me so long to get this website live.

I originally had the intention of keeping the site simple, but the moment I discovered the theme for my blog posts — The Power of Stories — I suddenly realized I had more to say than I thought. My whole life is influenced by stories and how they are told, the power they have over our imaginations and the way they influence every moment of our lives.

But, being the perfectionist my Inner Editor is, I’ve gone over and over and over my prior posts, originally determined to ensure there are no embarrassing typos, but instead getting distracted on updating and expanding on the ideas in my posts, re-writing them to be more clever, more meaningful, more succinct. Well, I had to put my foot down and make it stop. Over the last week I’ve told several people to expect the launch of my new website. They were at first patient, but then a few stopped tapping their foot politely and asked me, “What the fuck? Are you doing it or not?!”

Yes, I am. One more week, I promise. And this time I mean it. No more over-editing, although I think I’m going to have a hard time not going back to at least tweak a few things–all in the guise of checking for typos.