Posting regularly and honesty

“Sometimes I have nothing to write about […] and sometimes I have plenty to say […] The key is to write no matter what. If you write often enough a strange thing starts to happen: you stop lying so much and slowly some of the truth starts trickling in. It turns out that it shockingly hard to maintain a stream of hype, exaggeration and hyperbole without a trace of truth, fear or regret.” -Thomas Broening

Thomas Broening’s entry the other day really struck me— I struggle with forcing myself to write in my personal journal and worry that I may have this same problem over here at Existing Light. I think I even have this problem with my work— I don’t just keep putting it out there no matter what, and I think the amount of control I exact over what I do put out is what keeps me from being as honest and real as I could be. I’m definitely not intentionally hyping or exaggerating anything, but I think I am hiding my failures and only showing the stuff that makes the cut. I’m not making myself openly vulnerable, and I don’t know if that’s something I should be striving for or not. I do plan on forcing myself to write as much as I can, and hope that will break me of trying to control my output so much. As for my images, here is my attempt at showing my work as it unfolds rather than waiting to decide if I like it or not— two new shots from a recent shoot that I can’t decide how I feel about: