As I walked through the empty hallways of our esteemed governmental institutions today, a thought occurred to me:   drunk people tend to smell bad.

Then another thought occurred to me:   what if I ran out of things to blog about?  What if my muse finally stopped visiting me and decided run off with my creativity to the Galápagos Islands, never to be seen or heard from again?

Because you know, that would really suck.

I don’t think I have to worry too much though.  I’ve been blogging on and off for yea nigh 5 years now, and before that I kept a journal on my computer to express my thoughts, so in one sense or another I’ve always been a writer, and I probably always will be.

I do hope I’ll be able to blog more frequently as time goes on, and one of the things I’d like to be able to do for the new year is  get my blogging frequency up to at least once a day.  I think it’s just a matter of writing up enough posts and placing them in a scheduling queue, that way even if I’m feeling uninspired, the queue can regularly update my site with pre-written posts until I have something new to blog about.

It seems to be harder for me though because I generally avoid political and news related topics, whereas for others they can blog politics and religion and what all day long, every blinking day of the week, rehashing the same old crap, the same old arguments, the same old news, and yet for whatever reason people continue to eat it up.

Sorry, I just don’t roll that way.  Once in a while I will bless the populace with insightful and enlightening political/religious dissertations that will tingle the senses, but for the most part I’m just here for the comic relief, to regale my beloved audience with riveting stories of adventure, suspense, and nonstop excitement that will thrill the imagination and leave you hanging on to the edge of your seats!

And that’s just when I’m brushing my teeth too.  Imagine if I really did something exciting. 

Tags: audience, blogging, creativity, muse, politics, religion, stories, writing
Categories: Blog Fog
 
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After a little over a year of this blog being online, I have finally reached my 200th post!

I have to admit that’s kind of sad. After a year’s time I should have had twice as many posts by now, and if I had stuck with posting at least one entry a day, my traffic would be ten times what it is now. Maybe.

Oh well, the good news is that when it comes to blogging, it’s all about endurance, and I just have to keep at it, even if I still don’t know what the heck this blog should be about. I went from thinking this blog would be based on my experiences in law school (and ultimately the legal field), only to end up griping about how online dating bites the big one, and how my health problems has been sucking out the life out of me, and how I think God is to blame for every little thing that has ever gone wrong in my life since I came out of the womb.

Still, I’m beginning to see the value in posting at least one entry a day. It’s helping me find my rhythm, and as the writing continues to flow I think I’ll eventually find my muse as well. It’s just a matter of time. Meanwhile my more frequent posting has already had an impact on traffic. I seem to be ranking highly in Google again, and as a result more people are coming from the search results they’re finding there.

I’m reminded of the Scripture, “Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.“

And I guess that’s the important thing. No matter if I haven’t found my niche yet, or how bad my writing can get at times. Just gotta keep at it… keep going… let nothing break my stride, and just keep on movin’…

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A guest blogger at JohnChow.com challenged the audience in commiting to writing at least one blogging post a day for 20 days. Apparently if you make something a part of your daily routine for about three weeks, it will eventually become a habit and thus a routine that will be easier to stick to.

I decided to answer the challenge as well, since one of the big problems I’ve had in getting this blog going was my history of erratic posting frequency. I have to admit I was actually afraid to link to Chow’s blog because he’s currently in the Google doghouse for engaging in controversial link building. I thought if Google saw that I linked to his site, they would think that I was another evil fan of his and then blacklist me from their search index for all eternity, forever doomed to the dark pits of internet obscurity.

I think I worry too much.

As for what’s holding me back, I think the main reason is TIME. I’m spending a lot of time working at my job, catching up on my news feeds, tweaking my site, reading up on affiliate marketing, learning about microstock photography, gaming, watching TV, staring into empty space, just about everything EXCEPT blogging. I make no time for it at all, and it shows.

There’s another reason for this though: I have nothing to write about. Well nothing that I think will at least interest anybody. I think my writing sucks monkey’s balls too. No matter how good an idea I have for a blogging post, it never seems to translate well on “paper.” Somewhere in the blogging process things get jammed up and the end result is mindless crap. Maybe as I attempt to blog more often things will get better. Maybe not.

Maybe I need a life. Maybe I need a woman too.

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Categories: Blog Fog
 
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