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Writer's Block.

There comes a time in every person's life when things just don't fall quite as naturally into place as the seem to normally do. A time when life itself is a chore to complete or an errand to run and nary a second goes by without the loud tick tock of the clock in one's ear - reminding one that the seconds are precious little devils waning away - even at this very moment.

Time's an evil master and so, to, is writer's block and every blogger will experience the block at one time or another. In fact many bloggers may find this block so large, so cumbersome, so overwhelming that they drop everything right there and then - as evidenced by the occasional carcass of a website you may stumble across during your travels through this desert wasteland they call the internet.

Everything is like nothing is like something. It's a good motto to remember, a mantra to repeat, and maybe just maybe out of nothing springs something - eternal life or hope or at least a good story.. a good anecdote? Something. Anything. Everything.

Life ain't easy and so, writing being a part of it, well; isn't easy either. It's the nature of the beast. The best you can do is power through or just plain ignore it. Hard to ignore it when you have a deadline and it's awful hard to power through it when you just have no motivation or need to produce.. so apply it where it fits and do your best.

But don't walk away because then we've all lost.

Here is a little itty-bitty, albeit perhaps very scary, fact:

The internet is a public place. Strangers are reading your blog. People who do not know you and people you will never meet. People that are more varied than you could possibly imagine and they are thinking some damn strange things about what you write. You have no idea. They're reading your shit and seeing in it something you never thought was even there and maybe they're jerking off to it or crying themselves to sleep or maybe they just think you're a sucker for being you but anyway you look at it they are out there: searching. for you.

And because they are out there - and because there are pack rats who create things like the library of congress - well, you're shit is going to be around very an awfully long time. Longer than you might think possible. Don't believe me?

check it out

check the first one out. That's this blog. Two years ago. Exactly as it was... like a fossil preserved through time beneath piles of rubbish and dirt and debris and now, here in front of you, you can see it for what it was. more rubbish, but that isn't the point.

Someday scientists will research us like an extinct society. Someday we'll be talked about as a bygone culture. Someday, we'll be gone.

*gasp*

So make it last. Check that second link out. It's MTV. 1997 MTV. That's old shit. Check the last one. Yahoo! in 1996. Crazzzzy.

See, when we're gone our information will still be here. Our shit will continue to stink up this planet for some time to come and your great great grandkids.. they're all going to be laughing at your stuff.

It's gold, baby. Gold.

Brighter than any crinkly old letter falling apart in your hands that you found in the attic while you were looking for some of grandma's old clothes.

Sure, digital is cheap but that's what we are: bright, cheap, out of control. And all available for the world to see...

forever.

So this writer's block you speak of? This inability to write? Whatever. Get over it. Move on. It's over and no one cares. It's so 2003 it hurts. Writer's block is for writers and you're not a writer your a blogger so get your ass on the keyboard and
post motherfucker
post motherfucker
post.

why

are

we

waiting

you

must

be

master-

bating

..Goes the old drinking song at McGill but it applies here as well. No excuses. If you're reading this you're probably in front of a keyboard so whip it out and make it your bitch and post something good and exciting to write about. I ain't stopping you. Newt ain't stopping you. Bush ain't stopping you and the whole goddamn world surely ain't stopping you so what's your excuse?

yah?

well that's lame.

suck an egg.


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