I've had my blog for eight years now. It started as a diary of sorts and over the years it has worn a variety of hats on different subjects. It helped to fuel my body positive journey, it forced me out of black clothes into colour; it let loose my imagination and freed the words that were always in my head, but never came out. It fueled me to write my opinion pieces and later, for the past couple of years, it has given me an out of hours income aside of my full time job.
The problem is that when you start to write commercially, when you focus your spare time on writing for someone other than yourself; the words that always flowed so freely before are forced into a particular mindset and your thoughts are pushed to one side.
Although I will still have my commercial side, although to a smaller aspect now, I want to really write again. I want to rant again. I want to share the thoughts that somehow come out so freely on my blog, especially when I wouldn't say them out loud. I want to talk about current affairs, the silly things that enter my mind and talk about the parts of my soul that only come out when I write, unedited.
Right now, I am barely blogging. I have fallen out of the habit of opening up my laptop every night. Blog ideas that I used to jot down during the day don't appear. I used to be able to come up with a subject and practically have the post drafted in my head by the time I got home. Not now.
The thing is, I remember how much I love writing here, as soon as I start to type. As I write this post now, the smile appears on my face and parts of my brain wake up again.
There certainly isn't a shortage of things to talk about in current climes! I recently did a post about non platforming which got my brain juices flowing again.
I think the answer to my non writing period is that I need to get back into the saddle properly. I need to write, every day, about something. Not necessarily a full blog post piece, sometimes just a paragraph. About anything.
I need to be excited about writing again because I can't put aside something that I love to do just because life gets in the way. So hopefully, there will be many more posts to come.
Although I will still have my commercial side, although to a smaller aspect now, I want to really write again. I want to rant again. I want to share the thoughts that somehow come out so freely on my blog, especially when I wouldn't say them out loud. I want to talk about current affairs, the silly things that enter my mind and talk about the parts of my soul that only come out when I write, unedited.
Right now, I am barely blogging. I have fallen out of the habit of opening up my laptop every night. Blog ideas that I used to jot down during the day don't appear. I used to be able to come up with a subject and practically have the post drafted in my head by the time I got home. Not now.
The thing is, I remember how much I love writing here, as soon as I start to type. As I write this post now, the smile appears on my face and parts of my brain wake up again.
There certainly isn't a shortage of things to talk about in current climes! I recently did a post about non platforming which got my brain juices flowing again.
I think the answer to my non writing period is that I need to get back into the saddle properly. I need to write, every day, about something. Not necessarily a full blog post piece, sometimes just a paragraph. About anything.
I need to be excited about writing again because I can't put aside something that I love to do just because life gets in the way. So hopefully, there will be many more posts to come.
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