It's end of July; Half the year is gone. I just looked at my blog and realized, I have only posted on one single day for this entire year so far! (3 articles on the same day). I am a software engineer passionate about computers and technology; Lots of technology related ideas and thoughts cross my mind on a daily basis. Why then is my blog so empty? I do know that I have the craving to blog them.. but it just doesn't happen. Why?
I badly needed to figure out the reasons and try to overcome them.
My first problem is that it takes quite a lot of effort for me to organize all the different points I have in mind into a meaningful flow of thoughts. This exhausts me halfway down an article which I then end up scrapping off. Worse, this creates friction for starting a new article next time.
My second problem is the "writers block", caused by the exact reasons as mentioned by William Stafford:
"I believe that the so-called "writing block" is a product of some kind of disproportion between your standards and your performance ...one should lower his standards until there is no felt threshold to go over in writing. It's easy to write. You just shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing . . . . I can imagine a person beginning to feel he's not able to write up to that standard he imagines the world has set for him. But to me that's surrealistic. The only standard I can rationally have is the standard I'm meeting right now...You should be more willing to forgive yourself. It doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it."
(William Stafford)
My final problem is lack of time. This, in reality, should not be a problem since however busy I may be, I'm sure I should be able to find 15-30 minutes a week to blog my ideas on technology.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)