Why I Don't Post as Often as I'd Like and How that Makes Me Feel
Very seldom, if at all, have I ever started a post with, 'Sorry its been a long time since I've been on this thing. I've been busy, but I promise to post more often now.'
I don't need to apologize for being absent on this thing.
The truth is that I enjoy posting - writing and conversing, dreaming up the topic and laying it down. Thus, when I don't post, its not really the reader I feel I'm letting down but its the experience of writing and sharing that I'm not taking advantage of.
All the personal issues seem too personal and I don't feel like I can really elaborate on the whatever-topics. What About Bob and Knocked Up were sort of exceptions to that principle.
I feel like ever since I did that Call for Posts I feel like my ideas for posts have stunk.
What's funny is that I'll usually get about two or three paragraphs into a post, like this one, and realize that I've fluffed the entire thing up until that point. Basically, I would like to be writing something with more meat to it than this simple explanation.
But sometimes writer's block is stopped only after some of the dust is cleared off of the typewriter. So that's what I'm doing here. Get off me, dust!
3 comments:
i like it sir
Ben,
I agree with much of what you've said, particularly about "fluffing" the posts. Recently, I've made attempts at adding more links and the like to give posts more "depth" but to be honest, I don't think it's worked, nor do I think readers have noticed. What blogging has done is made me respect people like the Sports Guy or TrueHoop (especially them) for the amount of extra material they provide, because a post can be very time and energy consuming.
On the other hand, most of our readers are our friends, they know some of where we come from, and this is about staying in touch and sharing some ideas, not recreating a senior seminar class.
I don't think you should be concerned with making sure every one of your posts are multi-layered exposés of american social life or even interesting for that matter. I think a post every couple days is better than a great post once every 10 days. Throwaway posts sometimes garner much more attention than specially crafted ones.
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