Starting and starting over
Here we go again.
I’d tried several times to start a blog, and have failed several times to live up to my expectations.
The first time I tried I created a blog like many others have, a repository for “my two cents” on topics from writing to language to sports to politics to my particular dislike of neck wear. But my own inability to pull two cents out of my pocket on a daily basis meant the blog went stale real fast … and I couldn’t bear being the author of a trite blog. So, being the yahoo, folksy president of my own creative universe, I preemptively bombed the blog without any second thoughts.
Then I created a blog that I intended to fill with fiction, writing exercises and poetry. But then I hit a creative dry spell and that blog too went stale in no time. And, again, I bombed it good and dead.
The next idea I thought was my best. I started the blog that I wrote as a fictional character, making the blog itself a work of fiction. It was written by a character who was living in a world on verge of collapse, dealing with an unexplained phenomenon of supernatural beings one thought only fiction coming into existence on the earth, and that was only part of the scene. However, to do that correctly I would have to commit a great amount of time to the project, especially if the date and time stamps from the blog posts were going to really integrate with the fiction, I would have to set aside time each day. I liked this project, but holding a 9-to-5 job and writing a blog like that well would be impossible. So I bombed it (but I saved the copy and will work on that story again).
Then I created a blog where I grabbed a Flickr photo each day that resonated with what happened to be on my mind at the time and I paired it with some pithy comment. That was a dumb idea, so I blew it up.
So, now what?
Now I’m going to post my two novels, editing them right here and taking into consideration any comments I receive from readers. I’m going to post my poetry, my wine writing, and any other projects I’m working on. And my blog posts will be about my goals as a writer, my motivations, how I came up with characters and plot lines, my struggles in my craft and much more.
So, enough exposition. It’s going to be great.
I’m done bombing.
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I know how that feels like. In the past 7 years, I have gone through about 9 or 10 blogs, each one different from the previous one. Like you, I had all these ideas about what my blog should be about, but had failed to come through.
Once again, I’m going to delete my blog again, and write one where it’s totally me, where I’m totally comfortable with. I’m a teenager constantly searching for my identity, and so I’m sure my journey constantly changes. Maybe one day, I will say too: I’m done bombing.
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