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Not a post
So the day after signing up to Blog365, I find myself near the end of the day not having written anything and thinking that I can’t fail so soon into the challenge, surely.
I hadn’t realised how hard it would be to write on demand like this. All my previous posts have been triggered by an event, a thought, a whatever and I’ve then sat down and written something. If a few days have gone by, I don’t get worried that I haven’t written a word. Hey, I’m not John Grisham or Stephen King - this is not my job. My financial security does not depend on me getting posts written to schedule.
Except now I have that whole schedule thing going on. By the end of each 24 hours, something new needs to have gone up on this blog or the other one I have at BlogSpot. When I couldn’t think of anything to write about this morning I did a bit of blogkeeping - I updated my Books page (so that actually qualifies as new writing I suppose), cleaned up some page footers, created an Amazon Wish List to add to my PayPal Donate button should there be any among you who are charitably minded, stuff like that. All in the hope that while I was doing it, something would spring to mind - or pop up in the feed reader - that was worth writing about.
But here we are and it’s nearly tomorrow and still nothing has come to mind that qualifies as something worth writing about. I promise to do better tomorrow.
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i think if i tell myself i want to write a post every day, i could do it. it’s when i put myself in an ‘official’ position like signing up for blog365 that i get the block. and i get very anxious if i can’t do it.
maybe you could do non-posts like links if you have nothing to write. it’s new material anyway; just not from your blog.
Yeah, I have already totally blown it. I missed three days in a row. Ah well, I’ll still try and do my best.
@sulz:
It’s tricky; I want to try and write something that’s worth reading each time, rather than do the sort of posts that I see on too many other blogs where someone says something like: “It’s Saturday; it’s raining. I got wet.” I’ll have to see how it goes.
@Just Jinny:
Good luck with the coming days, weeks and months! (Actually, putting it like that is not helping my own block!)