The Number

24 Dec 2023

I’ve chased a lot of numbers over the years. I have wanted to be older when I was young and younger when I have been older.

I have had numbers on a screen show I owe people a lot of money,and I have had numbers on a screen showing that I have some money at least.

I have child who identifies by her age - also a number

Heck, I have a license plate number and a house number.

I have lots of numbers. Some I like and some I don’t and some I care about and some I never will. I have an alien number for crying out loud.

The number I want to care most of all is the number of posts number you see at the top of the page. At writing, it’s a 40. I want that to be 1000 and then 2000, and so on

Why? Because I want to be known a writer and not an Uber Driver. And to do so I figure I have to write. A lot.

It doesn’t matter what app I use to either write or publish, and believe me when I tell you I am pretty sure I have found and tried most of them and they all have thier flaws. The apps and tools have long been the distraction. It’s a lot more fun to be a part of the new darling of writing site or social media or whatever.

It’s a lot more fun to stall writing. It’s a lot more fun to tweak this sites design over and over again, until I get it just right.

It’s not as much fun to put yourself out there. I write with too many commas,¹ and my sentence structure isn’t the best either. I haven’t learned to type correctly so the backspace button is my favorite button.

All of it doesn’t matter

I just have to write. I want to tell people I write and have written and been self published. I don’t need to submit my writing to publishers as I am the publisher.

What matters is I push the keys on the keyboard and then make the words and sentences happen. Then I push publish.

And then I do it again, and again. I am hoping my writing will suck less and less over time and I will become better at the ‘craft’ of writing. Or, maybe I won’t.

I do know that I want that number at the top of the page to count higher and higher. I think if I do that, all the other details should take care of themselves.

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