As we enter week, I don’t know, 3 or 4? of my attempt to rebuild my writing muscles via weekday blogging, I find that my initial schedule of content formats has become less of a set of content rules and more of a loose suggestion.
I honestly don’t know how people write the same thing over and over again, in the same format. I couldn’t make it 3 weeks sticking to the simple schedule. How the hell do newspaper columnists do that for 20 years? Well, probably a moot point, considering my children will be asking “what’s a newspaper?” in 10 years.
That’s all a roundabout way of saying, I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of a lesson for this past week, and nothing’s really coming to mind. Not every week brings some new pearl of wisdom or insight. At least not obvious ones. I’m sure we never stop learning new things, but sometimes what we learn is subconscious.
So that’s this week’s uninsightful insight. Tune in next week where I’ll have to resort photoblogging my pocket lint…
I plan to start blogging every week day, too. Just because I want to use my site more and try to maintain a readership. Last night I was asking myself, “What am I supposed to talk about five days a week?” But then it hit me, if there’s nothing going on that I want to talk about, I love history and I can just pick out some historical event and write about it. There’s plenty I can say about historical events and there’s plenty of historical events to choose from.
I take that back. Screw my blog, I’m scratching it off my list of to-dos. No one’s ever going to pay me for blogging, so it’s not important enough to do it every day.
I consider blogging to be a good warmup to writing stories, so I find it useful. If it doesn’t work for you on at least some level though, I would definitely leave it off.
If anything, it would have been good practice for non-fiction (I need a lot of practice in that area), because I often try to make my blog entries read as if they are magazine articles. But yesterday, after I worked on a screenplay, a short story and a novel, I didn’t feel like blogging. As much as I’d like to write non-fiction, I think I’ll have more luck in the fiction department.