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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Okay, let's try this again

Back in January I wrote a post about how I wanted to get back to blogging. I was going to post something every day and it would be complete shit but you guys were just going to have to deal because I wanted to start blogging again and you have to suck before you can be good. Writing is a muscle, I opined, and in order for it to work properly you have to give it regular exercise. You can't just stop writing and then wonder why you're all writing flabby. You're flabby because you've stopped working out. If you want it to be healthy and awesome you need to keep working it.

So, that was my plan. At the time. But then I ran into some things I wasn't expecting: a big bearded bully.....  a massively painful loss.... and things got a little sidetracked. My plan to exercise my writing muscle fell by the wayside and I was, once again, writing flabby. Moreso.

Not only that, but I've been paying attention to exercising other muscles lately: butt, legs, arms, heart. I've been working out, which is time consuming, and while I do tend to write my best posts in my head while I'm nowhere near the computer, I also lose everything once I get in front of the computer.

For example, I've been wanting to write a post about mice for weeks now, but I just can't DO IT. I try to get it out of my brain but the best I could do is this piece of shit:

Sup? I'm a mouse. Squeek.

Okay, I just got a phone call and totally lost my train of thought. This writing thing is HARD.

Anyway, I'm going to try to do this again, exercise my blogging muscle. Hopefully it will become nice and firm eventually, but in the meantime? It might be pretty lame here for a bit, so please bear with me.

I suppose lame is better than no posts at all, though, right?

RIGHT??
That's a cricket.

Chirp.




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I was thinking about you the other day (hence the awkward Twitter comment)! Lame is better than absent, yes.

Oh, mice. I do hope your cats take care of them. My dog does not, unfortunately.
Hey, nice blogging muscle you got there. You work out? *slaps you on your brain*
1 reply · active 604 weeks ago
You like? *giggle*
Maybe your goal could be to just write ONE SENTENCE on your blog every day. Sometimes writing one sentence a day is way more manageable than thinking about writing a great blog entry once a week! You could just make it a little sentence like, "Today I went to the grocery store and they were out of chicken noodle soup."
worried about the kitten you might punch if I don't leave a comment -- so here goes --
can totally relate to difficulty writing when life gets in the way --
hope you hang in there --
rock on!
Why does writing sometimes feel like scaling a slick wall. With people on the top poking you down with sticks.... I hear you. Maybe just a word. A day. And not inspirational please. Enough of that shit out there.
1 reply · active 604 weeks ago
Not to worry. I am very rarely inspirational.
At least you blogged about wanting to blog more. I haven't even gotten that far.
Yay! You're here...with drawings even!!!!
I love the mouse. I, too, write my very best posts in my head, and then forget them once I'm in front of the computer. I still get really happy every time I see an email that you have a new post. Guess I'm loyal like that. Or else I'm waiting for you to invite me for cake.
PS crickets are gross.
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KidsDrDave · 604 weeks ago

If you are going to tell us how you rid your house of mice, then I can't wait to read it. Because I need some advice on that. Like today.
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KidsDrDave · 604 weeks ago

And WTF? You don't know how to draw a cricket?
The surest way for me to blog even less is to say I'm going to blog more. Maybe I should say I'm going to blog less and since I suck at accomplishing my goals, I'll end up blogging more.
1 reply · active 604 weeks ago
Yeah, I'm realizing that the problem with saying I'm going to start blogging more is that now I have to start blogging more. For some reason I didn't see that one coming.
Whole hell of a lot better than anything if posted lately so shut up, will ya?

A very wise blogger once told me, "Give them a chance to miss you".

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