Meghan,

Getting back into blogging after a very long hiatus and I look at how much you have evolved as a blogger since you have started. Good for you and for all this knowlege you have gained by bootstrapping your way through the bloggosphere. I find myself...as I continue to blog...(also a writer-blogger) feeling the opposite...scared to share myself with the world, to put my name on things I write, to go too deep etc. I wonder--what is the happy medium? Great job on this blog, btw.

Yay! This is heartening to hear. I am a novelist working on my first major piece of fiction. (I am 30) My protagonist is 25. Makes me feel like my character has some potential readership here. As a writer, I find it easier to write from a perspective a little bit younger than my real age. Because, while I am experiencing the life events and perspective of a certain age--it's hard to make sense of life--but after time has passed a bit--I have the scope with which to write about it.

Great blog, by the way.