It's been ticking me off lately that I have good ideas for blogs all day long when I am in the car and at school. I mentally compose in my mind, sometimes swerving off of the road because I am laughing so hard. I think about more ideas at school, usually inspired by student or co-worker interactions. The whole world is a blog all day long, until I get home and actually get in front of the computer. I sign into Blogger...open the "create" page...and then...blank.
What the heck was so funny this morning? I can't remember. What did the kids do that was so funny? No idea. What observation on humanity popped into my mind during my off period? Uh....
There are some obvious solutions that you might try to post on my comment page, and believe me, I've thought of them. There's the "write down your ideas" suggestion, which certainly seems like the simplest option. But that doesn't work in the car, and I forget by the time I get upstairs to my classroom. I could write down options throughout the day, but that would require me to carry a little personal pad of paper around just for my blog, and I would feel a little lame. I could get a Talkboy a la Macaulay Culkin and speak my mental notes onto a tape. But if a blog post-it pad is lame, the Talkboy is out of the question. And don't try to chic up the idea by telling me to get an expensive tape recorder. It's the same thing for a different clientele.
I actually do have a post draft called "Ideas" where I keep up with some potential blogs. But honestly, when I read over my notes, they don't seem that clever to me any more. The thought that maybe my ideas are not as hysterical as I sometimes imagine has too many horrific implications for this entire blog enterprise, so I've stopped the "Ideas" post all together.
I end up with little snippets floating around in my head, none of them developed enough to make even a short blog. I've almost done three posts called "Grab Bag" just to get them out. I'll let you take a peek:
...commuting, 24, In Style magazine, 3D sonograms, books on tape, frigid air conditioning, the new fifth ocean I just learned about, music and book faves, more unreality moments, men/babies/motherhood, the fence project, pet goats.
Give me a minute, it will come to me.
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You know another thing that mystifies me? How blog posts magically become so freakin long even when I didn't have that much to say? Sorry for the verbosity.
Keep telling yourself that the reason the posts are so long is because the margins are so tight on our blogs.
I often email myself my blog ideas if I think of something at work. But I sit at a computer all day, so that's easy for me to do. I also have a "sticky note" on my desktop (it's a mac thing) to collect notes... hopefully that is not as nerdy as carrying around a blog pad.
And I've gotten to the point where I just don't care if it's clever or insightful (have you seen my most recent posts, uhuh, yeah). I like what I write, and that's what matters. Don't be too critical of yourself!
Is this what you might call "blogger's block?"
I agree with Karen. I like what I write, and that's what matters.
I realized how funny I think I am when my mom made a scrapbook for me with all the photos we took of a mission trip. All the photo captions were really funny, and I laughed all the way through the scrap book. I told my mom what a great job she did, and how funny it was, and then she told me that she had just copied and pasted my own comments about the photos!
So not only do I have a very short memory, I also think I'm quite the funny one.
See, people? Laura shows her true colors.
Laura--that was you and Alan rapping on the talkboy. Even in sixth grade I knew that wasn't cool.
Are you pregnant? Did you have a 3D sonogram taken? :) hehe just kidding. I want to hear about the fifth ocean and the goats. I think goats are kinda cute in a barnyard way. My uncle had some miniature ones.
ooh, the gloves come off.
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