Ahhh. Screw blocks.I'd think of so many great ideas to write about, but eventually trap myself into a block. It's not that I just don't know what else to say.. Sometimes, the fact that I don't know enough about that subject just ruins the whole thing. I wouldn't know how to back myself up or how to properly display my opinions. And if I try to research into it a little more, there's just too much information for me to intake for a puny little blog. I'd need more than a few hours or days to fully understand everything. Writing is hard to do even if you don't have any limitations..
For example:
I tried to write about the younger generation's opinion towards history relating to an article I found a few days ago. Seeing how it relates to Stalin and gulag survivors; I needed to research more. I only knew general information, not much details so I tried to stuff multiple articles into my head, which ultimately failed which resulted into a bawfest of having nothing else to write.
Lately, I also haven't been drawing much. Sometimes I'd do a couple of weird, abstract doodles but that's about it. I just have no ideas at allllllllllllllllllll. It's really depressing to see a hobby so dear to me go down the drain because of a stupid block. Maybe it's because I haven't been exposing myself to new ideas? I guess that relates to writing since you have to read in order to write, right? On top of that, I don't feel very motivated to draw either D: It's mostly because I've been seeing no improvements for the past couple of months..
WELL, hopefully I will come up with better ideas rather than bullshitting everything because in the end, it just screws me over.
At least you're being honest with yourself about it. Like the man said, "This too shall pass."
ReplyDeleteI can't speak to the drawing blockage, but as far as writing is concerned: I hear ya about how hard it is to get enough ideas worked into a "puny little blog." That's the true challenge...not COMING UP with stuff to think about, but ORGANIZING it into sensible chunks. Catch the drift?
Shoot, if you HAVE opinions, and you're DOING research, you're not actually blocked. You may not know in exactly what direction your reading is taking you, and you may see lots of connections between things that seem so complicated that you could spend an eternity just trying to figure them out well enough to explain them to someone else. (Is this sounding familiar?)
I feel that way all the time. Like, ALL THE TIME.
I don't know if you know where the sample in that track comes from: Miles Davis! Hell yeah...that is one of the tightest jazz bands there ever was.
ReplyDeleteSorry to over-post, but something just occurred to me and I had a head-slap moment. There's no need to think of single blog posts as having to stand-alone every time. When I'm working through a network of ideas that seem related, my strategy is to clip one bit at a time and reflect on it, like this:
ReplyDeletehttp://j1t.blogspot.com/search/label/quote of the day
(Hope that link works...but it has spaces in it. Can that be right?)
Thanks bro-
ReplyDeleteI know what you're getting at.
Hopefully this week will be a bit more productive for me!