"Really? Two blogs?" Friends ask while giving me that look. You know the one that suggests I should rethink things.

I waited for a long time to get going on this one for two reasons. 1) I wanted to crystallize my plan and it needed to be an organic process as opposed to forced. 2) I don't love the look of this blog. Turns out I don't have the skills, or time, right now to deal with that so now that I've got the first part dialed in ... away we go.

I intend to keep up with my first, personal blog because it's my online net to capture all sorts of ideas, memories, impressions, stories and starts of essays until a later date when I can go through and mine for gold. It's a place for me to share my writing in a raw form and get feedback from people I like and trust to be gentle, but honest. I love blogging and don't apologize for it.

So why this one, too? Well, I feel I need a more professional one focusing specifically on my work. Since my work seems to be living inside out, on paper people can read my professional blog and easily find my personal one -- by easily I mean there's a link to it right at the top -- but they don't have to.  So, when an editor checks my clips they can see I'm legit without reading about how charming it was when Sam threw blocks at his teacher today ... or whatever the delightful detail of the day is.

My Nathalie's Notes writing blog will focus more on various aspects of writing (process, clips, angst, building community and inspiration). I invite you to check back often and hope you'll chime in.

p.s. Wow! Does anyone else think it's cool that it is exactly a year to the day this site, a life-long dream went live?
Okay, maybe not life-long since I wasn't aware of the Internet for the first half of it, but still ...