A Brief Apology Letter, to You

Dear Reader,


I'd like to begin by thanking you for reading my blog. Thanks for the support, the compliments, and the love. I cannot emphasize enough how much it means to me when I am told that someone appreciates the simple posts I publish here.

With that said, I would like to apologize. I have kept you waiting this week for some new material that never came. I always make an honest effort to post at least twice a week, and I'm sorry that hasn't happened this week. The thing is, I put a lot of effort into each post I write. I don't ever want to rush to post anything or post something simply because I feel like I have to fulfill some sort of arbitrary quota, because I know that that would result in a lower quality post. That's not how I do things. I would rather write a few good posts than a lot of poor ones. So that's why my posting has been absent this week. And I'm sorry for that.

I make no excuses. I can't say that I couldn't have written a post this week. But don't think I didn't try. I actually tried several times, and an obstacle always came up. Whether I got distracted, ran out of time, or I simply felt like the words weren't flowing right, I didn't feel like I was making any good progress and I didn't feel like I could force myself to post something. So there it is.

If you'll remember, I started a project on this blog last week called Best Friend Friday. And you'll notice that I didn't succeed in continuing that project this week. Like I said, this week was just an off week. I'm sorry for my failure, and I'll do better. I promise. This week, it's just not happening. The project will continue, but it'll have to resume next Friday. Please forgive me.

I want you to know that I am still looking forward to running this blog and I hope that you still check back here often for new posts. Again, I'm so incredibly grateful for you and your ever-present support here. I can't guarantee anything, but I will make my best effort to be more consistent. I promise.


Apologetically,
Giancarlo Diotaiuti

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