While reading Undoing the Silence, it dawned on me that I am not alone. I have always been extremely critical of my writing and I am cautious about how I may sound. I compare my writing to others and I feel that my work is never good enough. Louise Dunlap wrote a whole book about this subject and how to over come it, that's how I know I'm not alone. I am fearful of putting my real thoughts down on paper for everyone to see. I want to go deeper with my writing and not cower away from the feeling I am having about writing. This blog for me is my first attempts at free writing and I hope that it will get easier. I really can't pinpoint what has gotten in the way of my natural freedom of writing and why I censor myself. Even while writing this blog I find myself stopping, erasing, changing my words, and rereading to see how it sounds. I don't know what I am so afraid of but I am going to keep trying and hopefully I will get better at this.

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