Why I don’t blog well…
Posted By orchard on May 7, 2009
It’s all about distractions. It’s the same reason I have an enormously difficult time finishing anything other than a 3000-word story. I can plan enormously large and beautifully complex stories (or I like to think I can), but the true test is in finishing them. Which I apparently am incapable of doing apparently.
To date I have at LEAST 4 unfinished manuscripts with a word count well over 10k words. One is about 25k words, and another is in the 20-25k range. And they are all nowhere close to being finished. I have ideas at bare plot sketches for another 3 or 4 stories.
The problem? First off, time management. I have a LOT of other things that I enjoy doing or need to do, and those inevitably end up taking priority for various reasons. Family, work, & finishing my dissertation all take priority. Then, because I’m rather stressed after all that I find the need to relax looming a bit larger than I’d like. So I end up playing video games a lot more than I should. Which leads me to be curious about the internal workings of the game, and then I start playing around with the editor, and that then becomes a very fascinating toy (and oddly relaxing, even though it can be very mentally challenging). I’ve done this with various games (warcraft 3 is my current poison, but I’ve also played with Diablo II, which doesn’t even have an official editor!) and I always end up learning enough to make me feel that I’ve mastered something new, but I never really push the limits of it because I don’t want to put too much time into it.
So writing becomes a hobby that I love dearly, but I simply never make as much time for as I would like. This, of course, means that I don’t blog well. Even when I have wordpress to do the work for me.
This website sums it up for me quite well: http//:you.are.a.disorganized.freak.andyousuck.com
Made by my good friend Big-O, it’s a pretty neat little site. Maybe I’ll figure out a way to organize myself eventually, but for now…I languish in the pits of chaos, a freak twisted and spit out by the churning of societal insanity. But enough self-loathing and despair. I’m actually going to post this and another thought as well…
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