THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE TO WRITING AN EVERYDAY BLOG

An everyday blog is just what it sounds like:

Every. Day.

Like most things worth pursuing, it takes tenacity and creativity to make something worth writing into something worth reading.

No problem, write. Right?

But, there’s more.

 

At first, you might be confused about where to start, and many questions may arise in your mind.

I’m no exception to that. In the beginning, I was also unsure about what to write. The more I read various tutorials by other people on starting a blog, the more my mind got tangled up.

There were many ideas popping up, but I didn’t know how to express them, or I was so confused that I didn’t know what to do. It felt like I hit a roadblock.

 

If it’s not a roadblock, it’s a writer’s block, a mental knock, and the clock keeps running.

The proper perspective is to work around the problems, work through the problems, and make solving them a part of the process.

The other perspective is saying ‘fuck it’ and moving on to something else that scatches the itch to do more than you do.

Don’t do that.

You’re a writer if you read something and think, ‘That’s not the way I’d write it.’

It’s not? Then do a better job and find out if your idea works.

For example, my wife reminds me to not use her image on boomerpdx.

Okay, honey. Yes, dear.

But, it’s a problem because she’s inspiring, an inspiration, and it’s not fair to ban me from my inspiration.

So I comply with her wishes as a good husband does. Sort of.

I seek inspiration like other writers, anything to kick it into gear.

 

Seeking Inspiration?

This is me taking a class from another writer. He seemed to know what he was talking about.

Does it matter that Bill hangs out in a wax museum in London? Nooo.

I’d already taken the year long Shakespeare sequence during my English major days at the University of Oregon, along with classes on Yeats and Joyce.

It was an inspiring time of life in the late seventies with so many years stretching out ahead of me.

I’d just processed out of the Army in Fort Dix, New Jersey and started up in Eugene a week later.

Culture shock? Yes, a little.

But I was feisty and determined to write, then write some more.

The plan was to be a writer someway, somehow; to fill pages on my own, then find a way to fill more pages, which led me to museum work and a history degree.

Between the two Willies, Shakespeare and Yeats, I had plenty of inspiration to work with.

 

 

I had the dream back then and it never left.

That dream?

I dreamed that some misguided under-grad in the future would read my work and find their own inspiration?

Noooo.

I dreamed of joining the continuum of writers in the western tradition of providing information and entertainment for those looking for their own way.

The two Willies make you want to write, want to quit, then force you to reconsider your decision.

They weren’t always famous for running their mouths on paper, but here they are along with Kilgore Trout, a writer Kurt Vonnegut included in his work.

Who is this Trout? 

He’s a fictional creation, not a baby boomer blogger with close to four thousand posts and under one hundred signed up subscribers to boomerpdx.

Don’t think that’s a complaint, not for a second, because it’s not. Really.

It is just leverage to beg my inspirational wife to allow her image here.

Me: It’s a great picture of us in the Bath, England tea room where your parents met. No one will see it.

Wife: Well, okay.

Me: Baby, you’re the best.

 

PS:

Blog about politics and jump on the topic of the day for inspiration? Noooo.

Blog about your renewed interest in which celebrity recently died? Noooo.

Adopt a writerly voice in your work that sounds like every other writer? Nooo.

What then?

 

PSS:

Sell yourself on your dreams and convince others it’s possible.

My dream is for you and yours to get some level of satisfaction for the life you live and set an example.

Put yourself in someone else’s shoes and see how they fit.

Now walk a mile.