Posts, of the blogging kind, can be very difficult to come up with. What do you talk about that hasn’t already been talked about? It’s really why I came up with this prompt (SoCS) in the first place. Because I wanted to be able to write … whatever. And the best way I’ve found to do that is to write by the seat of my pants, whatever comes to mind.
But there are times when I have just way too much going on in my head. I need to be relaxed when I write, not have a storm of accumulating cotton balls floating around between my ears. That’s really what it feels like. They accumulate and then they clog the path to output until I’m ready to explode. Yet nothing that comes out makes any sense. Can you tell I’m kinda there already? Haha.
Distractions don’t help either.
Nor do the little gems I want to publish that I want even more to save for something like One-Liner Wednesday (I have two lined up already), or to keep for a post when I have time to sit down and really do a good job on it. As opposed to what I’m doing here.
Hey! They put tartar sauce on my Filet-O-Fish tonight!
See what I mean?
I think it’s a matter of practice, too. (Not putting tartar sauce on a sandwich–I’m back to talking about posts again. Keep up! Hahahaha. Yeah, good luck with that.) When I post a lot, say during a prompt month like January (Just Jot It) and April (A-Z), I have no problems coming up with something to write. Blogging depends on momentum. Or at least the ease of it does. In my experience at least.
How about you?
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June 15, 2018 at 6:35 am
Mu issue is always time. I have so many things that pop into my idea and not even enough time to jot the ideas down. Then when I have down time, my brain freezes up. Do I make jewelry, work on the book, post on the blog, go out and take photographs, cook something, clean house, read a book, or just meditate? I ised to actually do that, you know…..😞
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June 15, 2018 at 6:36 am
Pop into my head, not idea. See what I mean? My brain is a speeding locomotive..
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June 11, 2018 at 3:56 am
I schedule som e posts. I also write by the seat of my pants a lot. It works. I never run out of things to blog about thankfully!
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June 11, 2018 at 9:05 pm
Awesome. 😀
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June 10, 2018 at 4:22 pm
I’m finishing my 4th year of blogging daily, and it’s true, the more you write, the easier it gets. I’m thinking of shaking things up a little, but haven’t decided how…
Did you want them to put tartar sauce on your Filet-o-Fish? I think it’s gross and order mine without…
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June 11, 2018 at 9:05 pm
Four years of blogging daily?!? Don’t you take vacations, John? 😛 I’ll send you the next Filet-O-Fish I get with no sauce on it. 😀
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June 10, 2018 at 2:38 pm
Momentum usually is nearly equivalent to mood with me. At times I also get annoyingly existential and wonder why bother? Everything has been said by someone else and better than I can. But no one can write from my POV as well as I can, and no one ever has. There’s worth to that, at least when I’m believing it to be so (and we’re back to mooooods). I cracked up that you’re still on about the tartar sauce.
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June 11, 2018 at 9:04 pm
Tartar sauce is important stuff! Haha! I’m with you on the mood thing, too.
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June 10, 2018 at 12:33 pm
I wrote a post for SoCS, left the house and never published it! How’s that for cotton balls?!?
You know what else? When I get fried fish and fries, I dip the fries in tartar sauce, too. That’s how I roll.
Pantsing is my writing life, but everything else in my life is planned, organized…
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June 11, 2018 at 9:03 pm
Yep, whenever my Filet-O-Fish leaks tartar sauce, I dip my fries. Oh, how I wish I could organize myself better.
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June 9, 2018 at 10:16 pm
I agree, momentum is key. Whenever I’m hardcore stuck – like staring at the screen and thinking of the fourteen jobs I have to get done by Tuesday sort of stuck – it’s always best to punt and admit I’m fried. I still write (because momentum) but those posts are usually a bit ping pong-y.
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June 9, 2018 at 11:20 pm
Ha! That’s an excellent way to describe those kinds of posts. I get them too. They’re the kind I’m hesitant to hit publish on, but then, strangely, they end up being the most popular ones. 😛
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June 9, 2018 at 7:45 pm
You are the queen of SOC!
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June 9, 2018 at 9:42 pm
Haha! Not sure about that–the court jester of SoC maybe. Heehee. 😉
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June 10, 2018 at 6:31 pm
🙂 Okay!
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June 10, 2018 at 9:53 pm
😀
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June 9, 2018 at 7:07 pm
I agree. Unless I try a funny poem I end up with the posts (vents) I wrote today. My phone still is unusable and WP won’t let me use my app for it. So I have to go in on mailed to me posts and then my site.😩😤🤡
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June 9, 2018 at 9:41 pm
Wow, I’d rant about that too! How frustrating! Glad you’re still able to get here with your genius work-around. 🙂
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June 9, 2018 at 6:37 pm
You never disappoint! I think of myself as a guerilla
writer. Something pops into my head and I write like mad. Then I go away and muse.
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June 9, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Thanks, Pamela. 🙂 That’s quite the description! Haha. Works for me too. 😀
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June 9, 2018 at 6:29 pm
You always seem to come through with something interesting to read. I don’t know how you do it. So many irons in the fire.
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June 9, 2018 at 9:39 pm
I certainly don’t think I could do the Second Seat series if it wasn’t already written. But yeah, I do still have a few things on the go all the time. Thanks, Dan. 🙂
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June 10, 2018 at 6:24 am
Second Seat is fun to read. It’s a little smile each day. I know the ride will end at some point, but I try not to think about it.
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June 9, 2018 at 6:26 pm
Mine are all warm-up exercises; no preparation, just flying with whatever comes. I like to plan stories, but posts – come what may, they are the unfocussed scribbles of a manic mind.
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June 9, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Best way to be. 😀
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