I have been in the midst of launching my travel portfolio for the past eight months. I keep pushing the date farther and farther away because as of yet, there hasn’t been one article written. Well, on paper anyway.
In my head I’ve had all these fantastic ideas, but when I try to sit down and write them, I’m overloaded; I have no idea where to start.
Should I write big articles on specific places, should it be in story format, would I do tips and information, will it be first or third person? All these question combined with all the travel I’ve done left me with little idea of how to proceed with my travel website.
My lack of direction with writing has been something I’ve been working hard on trying to correct. With ideas constantly swarming around in my brain, trying to pick one, make sense of it and publish it is quite a daunting task. It’s literally been freaking me out and stopped me from writing as much as I could. So I started with what I could do – design the actual travel website.
As soon as I began to make the site real, I began to have an understanding of what I wanted to do with the site and what I could write about. With each new step of the design process, I figured out more and more the direction I was going with this portfolio. And after several hours, I had it figured out.
Although the design isn’t finished and there’s much to tweak, the general idea is there. And because of that I was able to finally write some articles – 3 so far.
Learning how to take an idea and make it real is a very hard thing for me to do because there is so much in my brain that I never know what should, and shouldn’t manifest itself into something concrete. I’m learning however, to weed out things that are just there because I’m creative and what I can actually use.
Figuring that out is helping me to not feel so overwhelmed and actually get things done.
The Chronicles of Girl at Play began in April 2001 as a way for me to chronicle my leaving a successful corporate position to become a self-employed writer.
