Do they make a limp-writers version of Viagra?
It has to be two, three times a week…happens the same way every time. I’ve got a great blog post idea and I sit down, room quiet, head mostly clear and I start typing…tap out a hundred, then two hundred, then two-fifty words and it happens. I go limp.
“Baby, it’s not you…it’s ME. I SWEAR!”
“This happens to LOTS of guys!”
Nothing really seems different in my life. I mean, I still have the same cynicism towards the City Administration. Bands and their silly mistakes still rile me up. And Dunkin Donuts on 2nd is still a shaky operation.
And there’s more! Since about twelve months ago (right around the same time I got all Twittered up and Facebook added the nicotine-like addictive factor) I’ve found myself blogging less and Tweeting and Status Updating more.
But one hundred forty characters surely doesn’t suffice for a great blog post.
Shit, this time two Octobers ago I was preparing for my ride-along with the Harrisburg Police department. That once came out to over three thousand words and got mucho-traffic.
Have any of my other blogger-friends experienced this?
“Baby, I’ve been stressed at work. Maybe I should exercise more or eat better.”
Sigh.
“Or maybe we just need to get more creative?”
Here we are. Word count 220.
Yep – got the same thing – except that sometimes I don’t get that quiet room. Been sincearch that I wrote anything worthwhile. Lots of drafts, none published. Lots to say, none that feel like they finish it off.
All-in-all, I am a coder, not a writer, but I love to tell people about websites and promoting your business through your site. It’s not full time – and maybe that is the problem for me.
Dude, you get to that point where you think, “What does it even matter?” Been there, done that, set the shirt on fire. Keep the faith, the Muse will return. She is just a little fickle at times.