Saturday, May 14, 2011

Bleary-eyed post

Lately, I've felt a lot of pressure. Pressure to put something out, to perform, to create something. I've been looking for an outlet, but I can't decide on content.

Here's a few ideas that have popped in my head:
  • A work related blog about the field I work in
  • A blog about my faith
  • A blog detailing one of my hobbies
  • A blog where I write humorous stuff
  • A blog where I delve into the variety of food here
  • A blog where I whine about my life
  • A fake blog where I write from the point of view of a character who doesn't exist.
  • A blog where I write about my life
Here's what I came up with:
  • Work blog - work blogs require you to be very serious and technical about your work. While I am serious about what I do, I'm never serious about how I present it. Trust me, if you read the trade publications I have to read to keep up, your eyes wouldn't stop bleeding. Frankly, I'm not serious enough in my writing to write like that.
  • Faith blog - Maybe, but I can't focus on this all the time. We'll see
  • Hobby blog - Unless your hobby is writing, you probably make stuff you can take a picture of. And that requires downloading pictures from my camera. I usually let my wife handle all that, since she has the awesome camera that makes dreary days look beautiful. Basically, because I'm too lazy to upload the pictures I take, I just don't take them.
  • Humor blogging is a dangerous thing. I know, because I used to do it. At some point, you feel pressure to put more good stuff out, but you're completely tapped out in terms of ideas. Then you have to go on hiatus for a while, and your friends stop visiting your site. Then you whine about how you have nobody visiting your blog, and frankly, nobody likes a whiner
  • Food blog - Love food, but it requires that I go to different restaurants and eat. Why can't I write about how I went to Taco Bell for the fourth time this month and ordered the same grilled stuffed burrito again? 
  • Whiney blog - Like I said before, nobody likes a whiner
  • Fake blog - Interesting concept, but I'm only inspired to do this for about a day or two. Then I move on to something else.
  • Life blog - Don't know how interesting that would be. Most posts would start out, then be interupted with "Uh-oh, baby's awake. Gotta change his diaper and feed him."
We'll see where this one goes.

1 comment:

  1. My wordpress ended up being more humor than anything else. And you're right - it turns into pressure to actually be funny, when I just couldn't de-stress enough to think in that mode. I recently reverted to a blogspot I keep completely private, and I think I'll be staying there for a while till I feel ready to publish to the world again.

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