For the first time since I restarted my blogging in Summer 2019, with all my Good Intentions for planning posts well in advance, I failed for today. Naturally, therefore, I shall take my inspiration from this, and write on Writer’s Block, that common or garden excuse for not writing. I use a bullet journal, of… Continue reading On Writer’s Block and Inspiration
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The Vicious Circle of Blogging
Ever since June, when I wrote about how I keep on top of my editorial schedule – the ideas, the drafting, the posting – I haven’t. Oh, I’ve had the schedule down: I’ve known what and when. I just haven’t prepared. Not in the way I aim to be, or in the way I had… Continue reading The Vicious Circle of Blogging
Reflections on Blogging
About this time last year, I was preparing to begin again with my blog. Over Easter weekend 2019, I spent time idling in the sunshine back home, thinking randomly. There’s nothing like idling in the sunshine for plans to be made. There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, of how Agatha Christie liked to work out her… Continue reading Reflections on Blogging
Looking Ahead: 2020 Goals
I don’t much like Resolutions; I’m not very good with them, which doesn’t help. I aim high and get tired within a month and give up. I doubt I'm the only one. On the other hand, last year, I had Goals, which I found easier to work with month-to-month. Admittedly the Goals started off with… Continue reading Looking Ahead: 2020 Goals
On Beginning Again
I’ve been blogging, on and off, for about six years now. The last few years have been more off than on. The result, I feel, of 50-hour working weeks. I think I had a month back in January where I didn’t have to work that much, but then it started up again. It only… Continue reading On Beginning Again