by Flemming Funch
Hm, some days I don't seem to hit on anything I feel like blogging about. Not that I wouldn't be able to find material. But I'd much prefer to feel somewhat inspired when I pick out what to write about. And I'd prefer to believe there's some kind of useful thread that weaves through the items I pick, and the pieces I write. So, if I don't feel it, I can't honestly do it. OK, on many days I'm just picking out a few items from the news that flows by, without adding much of myself into it. But I still need to feel a minimal inspiration of some kind.
If I'm not in the mood, or when I'm out of my element, traveling for example, it also reveals that I don't necessarily write about just anything that happens to me. Some people do, but that is often boring. If I really was just writing about anything, without filtering it much, I should never have any problem. But I suppose I usually try to write from a slightly elevated place. Meaning, I'm at a broadband connection, and I've had a sufficiently leisurely time to idly browse around various news sources, or sit and philosophize about life. It might not work if I'm sick or stressed or my laptop takes forever just to download my mail at some hotel somewhere. Except for once in a while, I might even wake up in the middle of the night with something I just have to go write down to share. During some parts of my life, that would happen every day - that I'm just burning to write something. Recently it is only happening occasionally.
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