chunky river
New content from the same author with the same mission: to create a community of free-thinkers that desire to tackle tough topics with a light heart.
(3 min read)
I never promised we wouldn’t have bumps in the road on our journey to building this community. If you’ve read my previous posts, I am deeply grateful and I want to continue to give you content that challenges your preconceived notions, and do it with a light heart.
Let me begin with honesty:
The last year I have been struggling to find my passion, my motivation, and discipline in almost every aspect of my life - HA. I really wanted My Chunky River to be a place to write about my ideas and convictions, but I’ve had one consistently nagging issue with the format: ego. It was all about me trying to reach people that see the world in the way that I do. Approaching this blog in that way was incredibly uninspiring and I couldn’t justify the constant focus on my own philosophy. It felt disingenuous and narrow-minded.
It also felt unsustainable. Coming up with new topics to cover was like pulling teeth. I didn’t want to do it. And even when I would sit down for several hours, I was never satisfied with what I wrote. Some people will say you just have to push through the days you have ‘writer’s block,’ but what happens when you have writer’s block for months on end? I was living in Groundhog Day and getting locked into a negative cycle of constantly judging myself and my ideas (or lack thereof). I knew I needed to pivot the subject-matter I was trying to tackle if I wanted to be more consistent in my posts.
I attempted to branch out with a story about Elon Musk, but even that felt strange. Why talk about an influential billionaire in a blog designed to talk about my own life? Writing that specific blog post started me on a cycle of writing about other current events (which I never published and never will publish). I wrote about Taylor Swift’s new album, Midnights. I wrote about the midterm election. I wrote about my own experience on election day. All of it was garbage and did not belong on this blog to which I was really trying to give my undivided attention.
I don’t want to be a journalist. I have way too much respect for the hard work and reporting done by people that have legitimate experience in the field. I went to school to play dress-up.
Then it hit me.
SATIRE
I am extremely interested in the news, but I have no business reporting on it. What do I have experience in? MAKE-BELIEVE. Making people laugh. Then I started to brain-storm ideas for news stories that would make me cackle and they just kept coming one after another. I was actually coming up with some great material.
Now I want to share that material with you.
This space is called Chunky River. I dropped the ‘my’ because this is OUR Chunky River. This Chunky River is for everyone.
I believe our world is so chaotic and stressful that we need comedy to remain optimistic and I have a feeling you agree.
Grab a float and stay sane with me. Or maybe we’ll go crazy. I’m not sure, but let’s go wherever the river takes us.
Stay tuned…
Article number one drops tomorrow.