Comments on: Why are blogs so hard to write? https://www.busybird.com.au/2015/12/blogs-hard-write/ Tell a good story. Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:32:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 By: Busybird https://www.busybird.com.au/2015/12/blogs-hard-write/#comment-53 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:32:26 +0000 http://www.busybird.com.au/?p=6423#comment-53 In reply to Daan Spijer.

Hi Dan,
Thanks for your comments Daan. I’ve got a spiral bound notebook too. I call mine Stanley and make a point of leaving coffee rings and tearing its pages, a strategy to encourage myself to write whatever comes into my head regardless of how strange or silly the thoughts might be. But I don’t think stroking the cat should be ignored. My cat thinks it’s one of the most important things a human can do. It’s right up there with opening cans.

]]> By: Daan Spijer https://www.busybird.com.au/2015/12/blogs-hard-write/#comment-52 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 04:16:08 +0000 http://www.busybird.com.au/?p=6423#comment-52 Go Lisa. There are ways to deal with the dragon. I blogged weekly for 3½ years and am about to start again after a 2-year break. It helped me to use the blogging as an avoidance of other things I could/should be doing, like getting on with my novel. It also helps that all my writing is in an A5 spiral-bound journal that goes everywhere with me, so I can make use of those momentary windows of inspiration and clarity. I try to ignore the dragons, like sun beckoning me out, the dog whining to be taken out, the cat wanting stroking, the… Oh! Blast! My toast is burning.

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