The Blog With No Name

I have felt on a roll with Blogs recently, they have seemed to just flow and I have always had an idea or two in the back of my mind ready to go when needed, that is, until today.

 

Three times I have sat down to type some mind blowing nugget of wisdom and three times I have started typing the kind of gibberish that an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters would have been mortally ashamed of. The more I tried to be funny, informative and of course modest the more I sounded boring, preachy and of course arrogant!

 

I kept trying to think of something that would get me going but nothing worked. I almost finished one Blog about returning Christmas presents only to read it and realized that it needed taking back more than the presents it referred to. I then did another about why concentrating on what you are good at rather than trying to be all things to all men is usually the wisest option, but it stank the joint up too. It was quite apparent to me that they day had come when I had officially lost it, I no longer knew how to Blog, my creative juices had left me behind quicker than a 5-Alarm chili.

 

I stepped away from the computer and thought about quitting and doing something tomorrow but I don’t like doing that so I grabbed a drink and returned. I reflected on how I write my Blogs to see if there was anything missing. Sometimes I start off with an exact life coaching or self-development idea in my mind and it’s simply a question of getting it down on ‘paper’. Most of the time though, I start typing with one idea in my head, get sidetracked and the post shoots off at some tangent ending up at a completely unexpected destination.

 

This wasn’t really doing either, I was stuck in a post-Christmas, pre-New Year rut and generating the kind of creativity that ad agencies working for local car dealers would wince with embarrassment at.

 

I contemplated blogging about this experience but almost immediately thought that was a bad idea. After all, who would want to read a Blog telling them that the writer was having problem writing the Blog that they were already reading? How helpful is something like that in the great scheme of things? Don’t give it any headspace it’s a rhetorical question, the answer is ‘not very’

 

It was about here that I remembered reading that sometimes it’s important that we don’t force creativity that we simply let it flow. Like a footballer that has a bad game or a politician that screws up an important question in a TV debate a blogger can have a bad day too. It doesn’t matter how many times we Blog or how much of an ‘expert’ we may naively believe we are, we will still encounter ‘off days’ and when they arrive the sensible thing to do just accept that fact and know that tomorrow is another day.

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