This is an entry for the Insecure Writers’ Support Group, which cross-posts on each others’ blogs on the first Wednesday of each month. It’s not quite the first Wednesday, but it’s close enough.
It’s been a while since I last posted on this blog. Although I’ve had gaps in my blogging before, the 11 month gap between the last time I posted here and today is by far the biggest. I began the blog back in November 2011, with the intention being that it would be a place for me to write about writing, and to whet my readers’ appetite for the fiction I actually manage to get finished.
I seem to have a remarkable talent for losing faith in the projects I begin, and I tend to be indecisive about what to do with the rare short stories I actually finish, which pretty much cancels out any use this blog would have as an advertisement for my writing. I have, however, written various reviews, analyses and thoughts on various types of fiction, as well as links to my writing on other websites and publications. The things I’ve written aren’t totally without merit, and writing them has helped focus my mind when I’ve been lost in big, ambitious projects.
One of the main things distracting me this last year has been political activity, but with the election now over, this should take up a little less of my time. My political activity has included a little bit of writing – on a separate blog and on one other site.
I tend to think it’s fairly obnoxious to push your political opinions on an audience who haven’t signed up for that reason, so I’ll try and keep this blog politically neutral. My moral beliefs will probably bleed through and become slightly apparent in some of what I write, but I won’t make any overt arguments expressing my very strong and genuine belief in Northumbrian independence, or my support for the settlers betrayed by the Demilitarized Zone being handed to the Cardassians. Or any of the other things I absolutely, genuinely believe in.
Now that I’ve got a few of my distractions out of the way, I should be able to return to more regular blogging, and fiction writing, in the next few days. I’ve been looking over some old, half-finished or unsatisfactory stories, in order to collaborate with my past self. It’s actually quite exciting to look back on what I’ve written before, and see that it’s not entirely awful. So I’ll be working on something soon, plus a few half-formed ideas I’ve got locked away in my brain which should be worth writing.
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I know all about long gaps in blogging! It’s been a struggle to keep on track. Hope to hear more from you!
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Thanks. I hope to keep up the blogging habit…
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Welcome back, yo.
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It’s good to be back.
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Welcome back to the blogging community!
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Thanks!
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Hi David, thanks for visiting my blog. I used to blog daily but now it seems all I manage is from IWSG day to IWSG day. 🙂 I hope to pick up the pace. Good luck with your writing. Finding places to market our work is a job in itself. Here’s one of my favorite newsletters, if you’re interested. It’s free and comes out weekly. http://archive.aweber.com/fundsforwriters/IezLP/h/FundsforWriters_June_5_.htm
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I think blogging daily is a bit much, especially if you’re trying to get other writing done as well. I always worry that what I write isn’t worth saying – if you write too much, there’s always the risk of running out of interesting things to say.
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Good luck with the blogging and thanks for stopping by my blog.
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Thanks!
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A break is good sometimes, especially when going back to edit. I’m glad you didn’t give up. 🙂
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Hello, don’t know the names of your political quandary. Supposedly half the people in any room deem themselves writers without finishing one short story, poem, or novel. Don’t be one of those.
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I’m trying not to be! I just need to develop the discipline to knuckle down and get things finished…
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My blogging practices have changed over the years. I’m currently only blogging once a week, which feels strange but necessary. I agree with Melissa. Sometimes a break is good and so is a change. Visiting you as a co-host of this month’s IWSG to wish you great writing verve!
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Thanks… very belatedly! I do find blogging helpful, it’s just very difficult to find the discipline to do it regularly…
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I started reading and had the feeling of deja vu. LOL
Now I know why. This is your June post. 😛
IWSG #123 until Alex culls the list again.
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