My Pen Refuses To Leave the Paper

The second I proclaimed to myself, and aloud to my uncle because he was the one sitting next to me on the beach, that I want to be a writer and am going to make it happen, I dug out a little notebook I had buried in my bag and started scribbling down observations of what was going on around me.  I have found this to be helpful in my quest to figure out what exactly it is I want to write about.  Through doing this, a few ideas have already surfaced.
I am an avid journal keeper as well.  I've got books that date back to high school, and not just little spiral bound notebooks.  They're thick, hard-covered volumes, all hand written.  One of my fears was that pursuing this blog and other writing ventures would take away from my journal writing - it's a form of therapy for me, really - but I don't think it will.

  Now the questions I ask myself are -

• What excites me enough that I want to write about it and share it with the world?
• Do I have a novel somewhere inside of my brain?
• What type of POV am I most comfortable writing in?  First person?  Second person?  Third person limited? 
• Should I start with poetry or short stories?

The book I just finished reading, Write Good or Die, by Scott Nicholson with contributions by several well established authors, gave me tons of insight about starting out and advice about publishing, marketing, finding an agent, etc that will be useful to me down the road.

For now some of my ideas must continue to ferment; it's time to start getting ready to leave the house for a 10:00 appointment with my therapist.