Well, something must be done. I’m the same boat that Cas was in a few days back. Unless I want my blog to “wither and die like week-old cut flowers in a vase” (Cas’s words), I’m going to have to get back into the groove. I can no longer whip out the standby excuse that I’m “busy with school stuff”, because school is no longer in session for me. I have the summer off, and won’t be returning to a classroom until August something-or-other.
So what is my deal? Meh; I don’t know. I’ve been busy doing other things lately, and my blog has been pushed into a dusty corner. I’ve been busy with language learning, where my list of target languages has grown rather large – perhaps unbearably large. As of right now, I’m actively studying German, Russian, French, and Spanish. Oh, and I have materials on the way for Dutch, as it seems like a pretty easy target knowing English and German.
I’ve been gardening a bit (gardening, great gods), and quite enjoying it. Not only is it relaxing, the fruits of it shall be wonderful on homemade club sandwiches (we’re growing tomatoes, among other things). The one thing I’m not so fond of: the bits of dirt that I can’t get out from my hands. Scrub as I might, I can’t get it out.
I’m still chugging along with No-S and shovelglove. I had to climb back onto the No-S wagon after falling off of it during holidays, but I’m back on now and holding on for dear life. Shovelglove never fell off my radar, and I’m actually considering upgrading my sledgehammer to a slightly heavier version. While I still break a sweat, my arms are no longer burning by the time I’m done; I daresay swinging the hammer around has become routine. That’s a Good Thing (TM), but I think I need to kick it up a notch (two T.V. star phrases in one sentence, that must be worth a gold star or something).
While shovelgloving, I generally watch a bit of a Stargate SG-1 episode; sometimes only 15 minutes, but sometimes I go ahead and finish the episode when I’m done exercising. With such a steady rate, I’m now up to episode 4 of Season 6. Just over halfway to the end; when I’m done with it, I’m going to be rather sad. Shovelgloving and SG-1 are like peanut butter and jelly for me at this point…
I guess all of that was a roundabout way of saying: I have plenty to blog about, I’m just not doing it. I’ve been too busy doing the whole, um, life thing to blog about it. But I do miss doing so. I may try a post schedule, say 3 posts a week, or something like that. Cas went for a daily post, Monday through Friday, but I know I wouldn’t stick to such a thing, so I won’t even bother attempting it. Maybe I’ll even take a look at some memes; I used to do Friday’s Feast (which is either dead or just not working right now).
Quick, someone motivate me!
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OMG! You quoted me! *gets knocked down with feather* *blush*
It’s only been a week, and already I don’t think my one-a-day thing is working out for me. I just feel like I am churning stuff out for the sake of it. I think you need to find the balance that works for you. Maybe once a week? Memes can be good, but you don’t want to overdo them IMO, because then you loose the individuality that makes you great.
Ack, if I had the answer, I wouldn’t be fighting my way out the doldrums myself now, would I?
Stick to it.
*waves pom poms in best cheerleader style*
There, that motivation enough for ya?
Posted 26 May 2009 at 1:22 pm ¶Wow, I’m in the same boat as both of you. Life has changed for me in many ways over the last few months and I can’t find anything to write about on me blog. I’m thinking I’m going to can mine and just write longer essays (which is what my blog was practice for in the first place).
I agree with Ms.Cas and say: find your own balance and don’t force it by making a schedule. Maybe consider a theme or message? Some kind of giant thesis by which to run your blog maybe.
Good for you on the languages though. I’m doing Norwegian
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Posted 28 May 2009 at 6:17 am ¶Cas: Yep, I quoted you. Hopefully I don’t owe you any money for it. You ARE in publishing, after all.
And yes, that’s quite motivating.
Tom: Will your longer essays be online somewhere? I’d ike to read them.
How’s Norwegian coming along for you?
Posted 02 Jun 2009 at 1:57 pm ¶This post gets to the heart of what I’ve been feeling for the past few months: there’s enough to write about, I’m just not doing it. There’s a reason for it, and maybe this is true for you, too, Josh: As Cas said,
“I just feel like I am churning stuff out for the sake of it.”
Ding! One of the biggest reason I’ve slowed my pace. I can write for the sake of writing, and do on a regular basis, just not on the blog. Stuff that goes there should be something other than noise. It’s one of the reasons I now keep a notebook next to me, one of the reasons I’ve started an online journal that thankfully no one reads (itz top seeeeekrit).
But one thing I noticed recently is that I found it hard to write anything when I wasn’t reading books on a regular basis (as opposed to blog posts or news) or interacting with people (moving from a city to a life-draining suburbia prevents that whole “interaction” thing). The more I do of those two, the more I write and the better my writing becomes. (Stephen King said something along these lines in his book, “On Writing”, about the correlation between good writing and reading/interacting with people.)
Anyway, good luck!
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