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Thursday, July 28, 2005
End the Dramatization
Don’t know if other blog writing people ever come across the same symptom, which is a really stupid one and the death to any blog:
For any good or evil reason you skip a day or an entry you meant to write - put it aside to be done later. Next thing what happens is that there are 5 entries, meant to be written, stacking up in your thought pile but nothing makes it to the blog, not the first and not the last of the 5 - and then, a whole month went by with NOT ONE entry. NOT ONE photo either. It goes even that far as to having the photos waiting and ready on the desktop to be uploaded!
Missing time becomes then ‘reason’ #1. Other things have to be done first before sitting down and taking the time to write is then ‘reason’ #2.
And the blog dies. Just like that.
The original stopper for me was that I realized I must handle some code which is messing up my site. Good if you use SAFARI to browse, but bad if you use FIREFOX. I found the WordPress code which for one reason or the other in the combination how I designed my site throws out this code which does not resolve and thus I need to hack the code. That takes time and mental space and the feeling that I should not be doing something else, something like… earning money. Or finish updating and designing my business website. Or right now I am working intently on some folder work which is taking up all my attention. And then my daily RSS reads began to pile up, and catching up seemed impossible. BUT THIS IS NO (VALID) REASON TO STOP WRITING. I realized… now.
So I am telling myself, end the dramatization. Begin again to write and to put up the photos (in the myView section and/or photo gallery). Just write in present time - and if I feel I can handle an additional half of an hour, fill in a bit of the gap which the last month has been. Finish the open cycles you are on - folder work, a possible trip to St. Louis, a trip to Minneapolis, a meeting with a client this afternoon, a neighborly get-together, things like that… - but keep on writing.
Once the code is solved, all will be looking good again - oh yeah, and I saw that there is an update to WordPress, so that by itself might actually handle my display problem.
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