Blog A Day

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Over on that "other" site I've started a challenge to myself. I'm simply going to cut and paste the two blogs together because I'm THAT lazy. Whatevs.

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I'm going to try an experiment...a blog a day for a month.

I enjoy John's blog, but what I really enjoy is that there's something there almost every day. So I'm going to try it.

Trouble is, I have no stamina - I often start projects with visions of greatness (i.e. completion) and then drop them, forgotten in a corner like a pair of holey socks. I currently have somewhere around 27 half-completed projects lying around my house...the chair rail for the stairs, painting Xander's desk, the rocks in my garden, the shelves for Xander's dolls - er, 'scuse me...anime collectible figures..... Hell, I've lived in this place for 3 years and I still haven't fully unpacked all the boxes yet.

But I'm going to try this.

We'll see how long it lasts......

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Blog 1 - And Away We Go!!

I'll be honest - I almost forgot about doing this "blog-a-day" thing. For the last 24 hours I could have been thinking up something interesting or witty to say...I could have researched something topical for my 3 readers to discuss...I could have gone through my old journals to find something to rip off.... But that's the whole point of this. I'm notoriously deficient in planning and execution, so this really is merely an experiment for me to find out just how deficient I am. The answer was almost frighteningly embarrassing.

Grasshopper and Buttercup (it sounds like all my friends live in a Smurf village) have both embraced this idea and will be writing (competing? yeah!) their own blogs-a-days. I love them or that. It's excruciating for me to show proof of how undisciplined I am, but knowing that they'll be going through the same struggle makes this seem easier.

How do writers do it? How can they be creative knowing there's a deadline for them to get a point across? The pressure of crafting the right letters to form the right words to create the right sentences which will evoke the right feelings in an anonymous reader - I'm truly impressed by people who can do that. I envy writers.

So, that's it...boring Blog 1. And it was surprisingly difficult. I'm no writer (obviously) so these few paragraphs about nothing at all took me an hour to write.

This is going to be a long month.

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