I have the dreaded affliction known as writers block. For a novelist, it's an issue that they can work through because there is a not a need for output on a regular basis. For a blogger, it's a death sentence. There are 14,417,716 blogs for people to choose from and if somehow you managed to actually GET people read your blog, you better make sure there is a constant stream of new posts for them to read each time they return to your page. Writers block for a blogger is a game killer, especially if this your bread and butter. For the casual blogger like myself, it almost feels like you have broken a contract with those seventeen people who have begun to follow your thoughts. They could have read a bunch of other blogs but they started reading mine. I feel like I owe them something for the time that they took to click over to my page to see what I was rambling on about this week. Writers block means that now when they visit, they are forced to read posts from months ago...and no-one does that right?
Well the one cure for the 'block' is to just start writing...anything. So I will. Tomorrow signals the return of the rant. I stayed away from the rants that I became known for but, for me, the easiest way out of the writing doldrums is to return to the one thing that I know how to do virtually unconsciously. Plus I've held a lot of things in for the better part of a year! Doctors say that's not healthy and y'all want me to be ok right? So starting tomorrow, when I feel like some stupid has entered into my world, you'll hear about!! The hope is that it will keep me writing and I won't have this long of a hiatus again.
Come on. You know you've missed me! :-)
These are my thoughts...what are yours?
2 comments:
14,417,716 blogs? Seventeen people following your blog? Is providing metrics a way to rid yourself of writer's block?
For me absolutely. How do you overcome yours? Oh wait...there is NO blockage when it comes to your thoughts...or filters for that matter!!
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