I’m being a terrible blogger again lately. I had a whole weekend to blog. But did I? Noooooo.
I got to wondering why I am going through this dry spell and I concluded there is nothing at all mysterious about it. It’s simply a proximity to my computer thing. Well that’s the bottom line of it at least.
When I was a part of the great Underemployed Class I was here at my computer during the day. Dashing off a blog when something struck me as funny, cute, stupid, or creative was easy. But being back at a 9 to 5 means I am simply here less. And, of course, I now jealously guard my weekends and refuse to sit at this desk for any length of time.
So yeah, no real mystery.
I am going to experiment with writing down things that I think about during the week. Perhaps they will inspire me to post things more often again. I am more of a spontaneous poster..but since that is not working out for me I’ll give this a try.
One thing that did inspire me…or..well…made me laugh was this below that The Bloggess made. I love the sentiment. Less freaking drama people. Please. 🙂
Now Alice! Blogging should never be an obligation.
That idea about jotting down ideas as they occur, though…that’s a good idea. Nothing worse than ideas bouncing all over when you have no chance to flesh them out, and then next thing you know you’re in the mood to write something light and whimsical and…where did all the ideas go??
They left with the Idea Elves, back to the enchanted Isle of Idle Ideas. Now you must mount a sortie to rescue some of them.
You’re trying to get me to recant, aren’t you! 😀
So, how’s the new job?
Hmmm-dy hmmm….
Ha ha..no no…don’t recant! Permission to not be obligated is ALL I have to hang on to. I have been chasing the Idea Elves for weeks and weeks now and I ALMOST have caught up with them. Slippery little guys.
The job is awesome! Challenging and creative. I am writing every day which, unfortunately, has made it easier to ignore my personal evening and weekend writing.
New plan. I’ll try to blog over lunchtimes and see how that goes. I generally don’t stop for lunch…bad habit. But if I take a few moments and just share SOMETHING maybe those elusive Elves will allow themselves to be caught 🙂
Alice, that’s great news! Keep kicking ass on the mandatories, and just let the optionals take care of themselves when they can.
You know what I do? I have one ‘draft’ e-mail in my work e-mail that has nothing but snippets. It looks like this in there:
“if marriage vows are hard for us, imagine how hard for those greek gods!”
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“infinity’s so big, you could cut it in half and it’s still infinite.”
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“Tips are a voluntary contribution to a deserving cause. They should be tax deductible.”
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etc.
…so yeah, I just pop the germ of the idea in there and later when I have time to pull something out and expand on it, I can look in that draft and try to reconstruct what the hell I meant by that.
That’s how I nail down those Idea Elves. Which reminds me, I think I was going to do a whole post about the Idea Elves.
Ooo that list is like a teaser…a tidbit…a glimpse into the mind of Joe. What fun!
Fabulous idea! I’ll give it a try. I do something similar for the mandatories. But they are not nearly as interesting “on paper” as your optionals.
They are more like…
Ecoli soda fountains
Banning e-cigs..overlegislation
NutraSweet name game
Fish oil effective as antipsychotic
Tylenol…rejection relief?
CT scans…the dangers
While I assure you they ARE of course incredibly interesting they don’t vibrate with possibility like your list. Hopefully my optionals list will 🙂