Blog-athon Episode 1

2.2.19
Blogging for a living requires some discipline, as do most things. What may work is deciding just what to write for a half hour, and then edit for the rest of the hour. It seems that I spend a lot of time editing or tweaking whatever I write.
At the time of inspiration, when the creative juices are flowing, it’s better in some ways to just type.
Then when I have spent the juices, I can go back, when I still remember what I was trying to say and correct the spelling, the wording, elucidate, clarify and otherwise make it sound very readable by reading it out loud.
Now that I have established some of the guidelines, where do I usually go from here. Because I don’t have any pressing issues, dogmas, or campaigns to be extremely passionate about, although there are many out there, and why not, they all deserve attention, I will just write. And maybe, unexpectedly, some earth shaking revelation, declaration, or insight will come up and demand to be put to print. Don’t hold your breath, some of the best ideas are unexpected, unanticipated and a product of months, if not years, of attention on the underlying data, research, or knowledge.
Suffice it to say, that many books could be written about almost everything. We all have something we could intelligently write about if we thought about it long enough. Of course, we want to write well, so that readers can understand what we are trying to say, and also give them something they can resonate with. I also strive to avoid alienating anyone. And it may be impossible to avoid alienating everyone. Therefore to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, “You can alienate some of the people all of the time; all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.” On the other hand that notion may work with “fooling” but not necessarily with “alienating”. But who knows. I would think it would be possible to alienate all of the people all of the time, but lately I wonder if there would be exceptions.
Whatever, discussing the odds of alienating readers was not intended to be the topic of this blog post, but as you can see, there can be rabbit holes anywhere. Doesn’t mean we have to go down them. On that note, I choose to change the subject.
I did try to start up my blog a few months or maybe a year ago, but didn’t get very far, let’s hope that this time I can stick to it, with more tenacity, optimism and a sense of purpose, even if’s only to express myself.
People do that all the time, some time it goes somewhere and benefits people. One of the tricks is to keep at it for one’s own reasons or benefits and avoid “holding one’s breath” until someone starts to appreciate it.
I remember about two years ago, I got one positive review about a story I had posted. Unfortunately I didn’t write the final sequel. Why that is, I can only surmise. Maybe too much pressure for me, but most likely procrastination and laziness. Those appear to be my worst nemeses.
In the interest of longevity and perpetuation, I’ll strive to put in the final effort for a sequel to this mental meandering tomorrow.