Not in a Funk · 10 August 2024
I am not in a funk. Not really. But it seems that my blog writing momentum has gone down.
I have been writing my blog for a long time. Since 2006, to be precise. Actually, I did not start my foray into websites and actual blogging until early 2007. But that is another story. A story that I think I already wrote. But who knows? Certainly not I. After all, I write my blog, post, and promptly forget it. Which is not entirely true. I usually remember topics that I wrote about, but forget the specifics. Usually. There are those times that I cannot remember ever writing about certain topics. Which is again a completely different story.
Having written my blog for so long it is sometimes easy to come up with something for the next week. Yes, there are times when I have a tough time. Usually those times are when I do not have any writing projects. Which seems odd. The more I am writing, the more topics I have to write about. I have plenty of things to write about when I am busy. When I have lots of writing projects. It is usually when I am in some sort of writing funk without many projects that I have a tough time writing a blog post.
Which seems backwards. You would think that the less projects I have, the easier it would be to write a blog post. Oh sure, it might not be funny or enlightening or entertaining or even readable (if it ever is), but it ought to be easy to write when I do not have tons to do. I ought to just be able to come up with something when I do not have lots of writing projects.
But it does not work that way. At least not for me. At least not usually. Usually, when I have lots of projects, I have lots of blog ideas too. Usually, when I am writing lots, I am full of more writing ideas.
It is when I am in a writing funk that I usually do not have blog ideas. When I have no projects in the queue, I have no blog ideas in the queue either. Nothing. In a funk for projects means in a funk for blogging. None of my writing is any good in any form.
Now, I know what you are thinking. None of my writing is that great anyway, so what is the problem? The problem is that I am not in a funk. I have more projects going than I can really write. I am working on at least three writing projects. Which usually means that blog ideas come freely too. But not this time. This time, I am writing on my projects, but no blog ideas are forthcoming.
Oh the horror.
Then again, the horror could be that I really am in a funk. That none of my writing anywhere is any good. That the projects I am working on are terrible. That the blog posts I write have no merit. That they are way below mediocre.
Or maybe I am finally realizing that I have always been in a funk. That my writing has ever and will always be far less than mediocre. Regardless of what anybody says.
But that is ridiculous. Or at least that is not my mindset. I will at least listen to a little of what my readers have told me. I choose to believe that I can at least write close to mediocre stuff. And every once in a while, I might exceed that standard. Maybe.
Oh. I do not believe I am in a writing funk. Or any funk for that matter. I just need to keep writing. That way, when I do get in a funk, I can just write out of it. After all, that is what real writers do. They press on whether their stuff has any merit whatsoever. And so to misquote Charles Dickens. Write on! Write on over all obstacles and win the race!
Write on over all obstacles and beat that funk. Write on. Even if there is no funk.
© 2024 Michael T. Miyoshi
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