Where is the fire?
Somedays, well quite more than some, I check my blog and the blog stats and see a particular entry has been read. Of late and for no apparent reason I’ve found that a random blog on “Peace in my lifetime” has been attracting readers. I doubt the article, if it could be called that, was what they were expecting or looking for. In fact I suspect that it is more than likely they randomly ended up here through some temporal fart from Google. Yes I meant that. No I have no idea what I meant by it.
“Why was someone here and what did they read?”, I ask myself, so then I read the article myself. Then I stopped and thought “who wrote this?”. I can see the fire and drive in that writing and now as I read this here very blog back to myself I don’t see that in me anymore. The words don’t flow they bump into each other and stagnate in front of me. I can’t see the passion forming or the direction where this is going producing anything meaningful. Perhaps I know more people read this blog than before and I am somehow self censoring my pros. But if that was the case the shear amount of heart-blubby-blubbering I’ve written of late would say that is simply not true.
What else could it be? I know that I pick up other peoples writing patterns when I read their works just like I adopt their accents when they talk. This has in fact lead to me having tags in the past for “Stephen Fry” and “Jeremy Clarkson” as apparently I could observe their writing patterns. I know it sounds a bit delusional. I personally think my best writing has been on random subjects that have motivated me at that point in time that crystalised idea and those points which have happened when I had been reading Clarkson’s book(s).
Just like my podcasts I had an initial drive and direction and lots of things to say and write but then they all got written and now I live in a bubble I don’t have anything else to say and write about. I’ve started writing “How to” like things. Why and for what for seeing they are terrible and of little interest, I have no idea. I suppose sometimes they cross fertilize with other mood swings and we find that I am ranting about some silly thing inside a “how to”. Subliminal ranting - hmmm that will be a first for me. I think I should blog about that - not really come on.
In my head right now the urge to write like the Doctor talks is very strong, with wibbly-wobbly timey whimey like pros. But I can not muster the anger or fire to talk about anything with the Doctor’s voice and certainly not about this blogging website. I can’t even think of a great paragraph or line to turn into my excerpt. I’ll probably use that then. That there what I just typed.
I’ve now done the maths (yes maths not math - come on really) and the only way to restart the fire is this:
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Make lists - list apparently helped me in other blogs
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Read Clarkson’s book and or books and or things about things but nothing to do with cars just his general book things.
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Go outside and live a life, have adventures and then come back here and share them with you.
Sounds like a plan to me. I will try I will fail but I will try failing. Erm that sounded better in the Doctor’s voice. Now all you have to do is read the rubbish I produce. Good luck with that.