Ahoy, There, Bloggers, Writers, Musicians and Others of Similar Bent!

Just a note to any blogger friends out there, since WordPress has decided not to let me post, for two days now, for some unknown reason, I may just use Blogger, as I have given up on WordPress. I originally started blogging with Blogspot which became Blogger, and at some point, it wouldn't let me on, so I switched to WordPress, but I somehow got back onto Blogger, so I was doing both, but now that WordPress has done something to my account so I can't add posts anymore, I don't know if I will ever be able to use it again. I can't even tell the people who were regular readers of my stuff. I did find one person on Facebook, whom I notified. Just so you know, as I was trying to fix whatever they had done to my account yesterday, a robot told me if I wanted to talk to a "human" I had to have a paid account, which I did not have, and do not have and certainly will not ever have if this is how they treat people who are having problems using their free account. Does that make sense? To buy something so you can get help when you can't get help with what you already have? They even have companies out there, created to help you navigate WordPress--for a fee, of course. I don't know what these people are thinking. And then, for the past two days my Facebook has been flooded with WordPress ads. Crazy, that's all. So, I am not sure at this point whether to continue blogging at all or whether to stop blogging and just write on my own until I can find some sort of a groove, because I'm not so sure blogging is the path I'm supposed to be on. It's possible I'm just worn out dealing with WordPress and all the nonsense about numbers to type to be allowed back in, and then, only to have them sit there buffering when I try to add a post. I am not a techy and can seriously only take so much of that. Just a reminder, the word "blog" is short for "web log," so it doesn't really necessarily suggest a particularly high level of expectation anyway. It's more than anything, perhaps, a way to exercise your fingers on the computer, not a complete waste of time, but close. I do want to continue to write and I have friends who like to read what I write that I share on Facebook, but I feel like I have kind of hit a wall here. Maybe you have some suggestions. I think writing every day is essential if you are interested at all in writing. I am still trying to find what I'm supposed to be writing about. I have just been writing different things every day, sometimes poems or songs, sometimes just talking about everyday stuff, sometimes devotional kinds of things. I have self-published a memoir ("Don't Let the Devil Steal Your Song") and co-authored a devotional ("Weekly Insights for the Workplace: A Devotional for Christian Professionals" with Agnes Amos-Coleman). I have written for three weekly newspapers and a real estate column for my local daily newspaper, so I have a variety of writing experiences, but still have to find my voice, as they call it. Not really a "branding," self-promotional type, more of just kind of like to write what I like to write, so maybe I'll figure it out one of these days. I'm praying about it. I'm tired right now because I've been practicing music for several hours, because I'm singing tomorrow night. I sing once a month at a retirement center, and I only practice like a few days before the gig. I think I'm even a little hoarse, so I have to rest my voice now. I have really enjoyed working on music, and have revived a song I wrote in 2012 with my brother. I may also include it tomorrow night along with one other song I wrote. You never know how people will respond to original songs. Some people don't want to hear anything they don't know. I was singing with a couple of guys for a couple of years and suddenly I was on my own, so I played a whole bunch of originals and lost most of my audience. That was a fun lesson, but now I have a group of ladies who love what I do, and it's great. However, I have only shared maybe one original song because I learned my lesson: Not everybody wants to hear original songs. It's kind of weird. So, I'm going to sign off for now. Will talk to you later. Love, Carolyn