I haven't posted to either of my two blogs in quite a while. The reasons are a little bit complicated, but allow me to try to simplify them.
Writing isn't easy. I probably make it a lot harder on myself than it needs to be. We're our own worst critic, as the wise saying goes. In my own case, my self criticism has gotten to the point that it's a miracle if I can write an entire sentence without feeling that it needs to be deleted immediately.
So you can see that I've got enough against me to begin with. But then, as I'm struggling to squeeze out even the shortest little thing that I can put up on the internet for all to see, yet one more voice echoes through my consciousness, mocking me for believing that anyone will even read the words that I have labored to produce.
The internet is a roaring din of voices. Considering that it takes so much effort to put the words together in the first place, to want to add my own voice to the internet's edifice of gibber gabber is completely stupid.
This problem is compounded by the fact that no one reads either of my blogs to begin with. Oh, sure you read. For that I thank you. But the thing is, there are only two of you and as much as I appreciate your faith and time, two readers (on average) isn't enough of an audience to justify the mental contortions I seem to need to put myself through in order to properly express a thought.
This has been the problem, more or less, for twenty months or so. At the beginning of this summer, my distress over these matters reached a critical point. I stopped blogging altogether so that I might think about the situation a little bit, and see if I couldn't imagine a solution.
My ruminations came to nothing resembling brilliance. The best I could decide is that I should just write more, post more and hope for the best.
And that is exactly what I'm going to do. From this point forward I will write as much as I can, and post whatever seems good at the time. Writings relating to music will get posted to the Hollow Tree blog, and everything else will get posted here, at iSuck.
I'm afraid that music-oriented pieces will come at a less frequent rate then they have in the past. I just don't enjoy music the same way that I used to. Blame changes in playback technologies as much as changes in music itself. If I invested in an iPod I might listen to music more than I do now. But that's not entirely certain, because there would also have to be music that I'm interested in listening to.
So, that's that. By good luck and strong will I may be able to flood this blog over the coming weeks. I have little hope that my efforts will do anyone any good, but I've got to try. What else am I going to do?
-9/20/2007 18:12:12 Asheville, NC
Writing isn't easy. I probably make it a lot harder on myself than it needs to be. We're our own worst critic, as the wise saying goes. In my own case, my self criticism has gotten to the point that it's a miracle if I can write an entire sentence without feeling that it needs to be deleted immediately.
So you can see that I've got enough against me to begin with. But then, as I'm struggling to squeeze out even the shortest little thing that I can put up on the internet for all to see, yet one more voice echoes through my consciousness, mocking me for believing that anyone will even read the words that I have labored to produce.
The internet is a roaring din of voices. Considering that it takes so much effort to put the words together in the first place, to want to add my own voice to the internet's edifice of gibber gabber is completely stupid.
This problem is compounded by the fact that no one reads either of my blogs to begin with. Oh, sure you read. For that I thank you. But the thing is, there are only two of you and as much as I appreciate your faith and time, two readers (on average) isn't enough of an audience to justify the mental contortions I seem to need to put myself through in order to properly express a thought.
This has been the problem, more or less, for twenty months or so. At the beginning of this summer, my distress over these matters reached a critical point. I stopped blogging altogether so that I might think about the situation a little bit, and see if I couldn't imagine a solution.
My ruminations came to nothing resembling brilliance. The best I could decide is that I should just write more, post more and hope for the best.
And that is exactly what I'm going to do. From this point forward I will write as much as I can, and post whatever seems good at the time. Writings relating to music will get posted to the Hollow Tree blog, and everything else will get posted here, at iSuck.
I'm afraid that music-oriented pieces will come at a less frequent rate then they have in the past. I just don't enjoy music the same way that I used to. Blame changes in playback technologies as much as changes in music itself. If I invested in an iPod I might listen to music more than I do now. But that's not entirely certain, because there would also have to be music that I'm interested in listening to.
So, that's that. By good luck and strong will I may be able to flood this blog over the coming weeks. I have little hope that my efforts will do anyone any good, but I've got to try. What else am I going to do?
-9/20/2007 18:12:12 Asheville, NC
0 comments:
Post a Comment