Deadlines, Tips, and the Written Word
Very faithful, very loyal readers of my blog may have noticed a sharp decrease in the number of posts in the last year.
This results primarily from the cloud of thank you notes awaiting attention for approximately the same amount of time. Every time I felt an inclination to write on my blog, I redirected myself as the simple equation this year has needed to be "writing = thank you notes".
But dear friends, my magic year given to me by all manner of manners experts comes to a close in two days, and I still have a pile (smaller, yes, but still a pile) of notes to write.
And all impending deadlines of doom must be met with procrastination of the highest order: blogging.
I attended a writers conference earlier this week. One of the workshops was for bloggers, and the leader shared all sorts of helpful information. The most encouraging thing, perhaps, was his retelling of the confession of one of the best bloggers of our time saying that he hadn't written a single good blog post until he had written 1000 posts.
I find this encouraging because it means I only have a year or two of substantial blogging before I can finally write my first good post.
Another way of looking at this is that I have an entire year or two of posts that don't have to be great.
Yes, very encouraging.
I'll just forget the part where the workshop presenter said that at all costs, avoid having a Blogspot blog. Maybe after I write my first good post I'll decide it is worth finding a different platform. Maybe.
Until then, I guess it is back to writing thank you notes. If thank you notes are like blog posts, I think I'm due to write my first good thank you note at any moment.
This results primarily from the cloud of thank you notes awaiting attention for approximately the same amount of time. Every time I felt an inclination to write on my blog, I redirected myself as the simple equation this year has needed to be "writing = thank you notes".
But dear friends, my magic year given to me by all manner of manners experts comes to a close in two days, and I still have a pile (smaller, yes, but still a pile) of notes to write.
And all impending deadlines of doom must be met with procrastination of the highest order: blogging.
I attended a writers conference earlier this week. One of the workshops was for bloggers, and the leader shared all sorts of helpful information. The most encouraging thing, perhaps, was his retelling of the confession of one of the best bloggers of our time saying that he hadn't written a single good blog post until he had written 1000 posts.
I find this encouraging because it means I only have a year or two of substantial blogging before I can finally write my first good post.
Another way of looking at this is that I have an entire year or two of posts that don't have to be great.
Yes, very encouraging.
I'll just forget the part where the workshop presenter said that at all costs, avoid having a Blogspot blog. Maybe after I write my first good post I'll decide it is worth finding a different platform. Maybe.
Until then, I guess it is back to writing thank you notes. If thank you notes are like blog posts, I think I'm due to write my first good thank you note at any moment.
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