April 1, 2002

  • Re-examine your entire approach to blogging; revamp it if necessary.


    Don’t assume that any currently well-patterned technique that you’ve developed or the mindset that attends it is natural or even desirable.


    If blogging were a bad habit, like chewing your fingernails or waiting until an elevator is crowded to fart in it, would you do it anyways?  Or would you arrange to do it differently?


    Watch every step that you take in weblogging intensely.  What steps could you conceivably  eliminate to make it a more efficient and more enjoyable experience?  What do you like least about blogging?  Can you eliminate that?


    Do you blog haphazardly just  whenever you have the time or do you set a specific allotment of time aside each day for your writing and online involvement?  Would ritualizing or routinizing your efforts even more  merely strengthen an addiction or free you to become more productive outside of blogging?


    Be honest: If you consider yourself addicted to blogging, are you driven to it  by an uncontrollable need to push, even if not appropriate, your heart and soul, mind and thoughts onward and outward,  (publishing addiction/exhibitionism), by a need, and perhaps even preference, to constantly relate in this way to others (cyber-relationship addiction), by an ongoing need for continuous recognition in this way from others (acknowledgment fixation), or by a fear of ill-defined loss from failing to blog relentlessly (ablogophobia, i.e., the irrational fear of abandoning blogging and living life without it)?


    Is it possible to blog without be cognizant of the act or having any recall of having done so?  If you see a post on your blog and don’t remember authoring it, should you suspect a hacking exploit?  Or just assume you were too fucked up then and can’t recall?  If you discover that you blog better when oblivious and seemingly incognizant, should you pursue doing so?



    …OK.  Who wrote this crap above?  Come on, fess up.

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