What's REALLY happening?: Considerations on writing
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picture 16 Jul 2010 @ 22:57

Have not published in a while.

How come? I am full of ideas, I often note them down and work on some of them.
They are in my computer and on pieces of paper, waiting to be published.

I have all kind of great visions, how my input will add to the collective knowledge of the world, how it will inspire others when they read it...
Still, I am somehow not able to publish.

And even worse, I cannot put my finger on it, why I can not.
I blogged here earlier, I also send out a newsletter and write on mailing lists - and the feedback I got is usually very positive, encouraging. No reason to back off.

It seems to be a kind of a weird writers block.

I figured, there are two equal opposing truth must be present to block the flow of me publishing.

As Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist, once said,
"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth."

The truth I want to speak about might not be great, nevertheless it is the truth.

So I decided to put forth my considerations and thoughts openly, however silly they may seem.

I just started to list out my ideas as they come up, which I believe hold me back from blogging or publishing. They seem to be opposite enough to stop me.

Will it help? We will see soon enough.
At least I will be aware of my own limiting ideas.
Or I will see how silly they are and that might help me reconsider.
So let's start. Let my considerations come up and shine in the broad daylight of the world wide web!


Why do not I publish?

Noone or only a few folks will ever read my blogpost, so whats the use?

Too many people will read it.

What will the readers think about me?

How will I deal with the attention?

There will be no feedback.

There will be a huge reaction, many comments - will I be able to deal with it?

Noone will care anyway, so whats the use?

Some will not like what I write.

Some will not agree.

Many will like what I write, then I have to excel even more.

My writing will invite adverse reactions, even attacks.

The quality might not be high enough.

There is too high quality, then I will have to match or write even better.

If I start to publish regularly, it is expected that I continue.

I cannot exatly express what I have in mind.

It might not cover the choosen topic 100%, for perfectionist it is unacceptable.

For a perfectionist, it is never perfect.

I seem to be a perfectionist.

Sigh... :)




(If I come up with more, I just edit the article and extend it. It has got to be a Perfect List of All Reasons!)

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17 Jul 2010 @ 00:11 by mortimer : My reason "why"
#1. People are the next dinosaurs.

Actually, I shut down posting new content to my newslog cause I noticed that the more I published the less people read. I looked at the numbers. When I first posted emotional art it was only 3 pages. And if I got 10 visitors a day, I got 30 page views. Means they read the whole thing. As I added more content the number of page views dropped.  

17 Jul 2010 @ 16:24 by bushman : hmm,
when the new wears off, like any new toy you got as a child. I also would remember, that alot of time I vist a page, and depending on content, I might toss out my oppinion, usualy if I see something I dont agree with totaly. That being said, I usualy dont comment on a post that I totaly understand and agree with and as well I usualy dont comment when I have nothing to say, this dosnt mean your post wasnt read. I never consider the author when I read a blog, this is so Im not basing the post on what I know about the author, basicly I dont care who writes the post, I care if the post happens to be relavent to where my head is going in that peticular moment. Again this all stems from the belief that like a single brain draws upon locations in the brain of individual brain cells or communities of like minded cells in your own brain, we can accualy see that each person is also a single brain cell in Gods brain and form communities of cells that fire when something is totaly correct with what they individualy believe. I know it all sounds convoluted, but accualy its simply the conclusion that everything is basicly works the same, that humans do have areas of the brain that think like ants, other areas that think like a lizard etc... So other than scale and scope, all living things are still part of one individual mind. So my oppinion is that, when you seem to be blocked from writing, you need to remember that you are the god and its all about making the choice to write, and who cares what others think about you, after reading your posts. I think the whole point of blogging is that you have put something out into the world that will be available forever someplace, and that maybe someone might read it 1000 years into the future and totaly understand what it means. :}  

17 Jul 2010 @ 17:32 by jmarc : Writing
GOOD writing is when the writer bares their soul in total honesty. That is hard to do for some, to have their soul bared to the world, in all of it's honest nakedness. A pseudonym might help. That's what I feel.  

18 Jul 2010 @ 15:10 by istvan : The age of Honesty
"17 Jul 2010 @ 17:32 by jmarc : Writing
GOOD writing is when the writer bares their soul in total honesty. That is hard to do for some, to have their soul bared to the world, in all of it's honest nakedness. A pseudonym might help."
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Most children of various ages delight in the game of HIDE AND SEEK. Enjoyment of the game seems to come naturally and satisfying for both the pleasure of hiding one's-self and the desire of wanting to be found, to be liberated from ones-self as "Hidden", and to become the one who searches next. So far seems to be the game;... but there is much more to the process.
I perceive for the ego(the one who plays the game and wants to hide), may be found to be a virtual entity so it can maintain all it's forbidden pleasures that are the very essence of IT'S existence.
Humanity invented milliards of methods, techniques to hide from the ensuing responsibilities (ability to respond and except) a higher nature, that might be called any name (the 10,000 names of god) that hides behind the wail, but yearning to be found.
Once it found it must be able to handle not only personal pain and limitations of ones personalty, but of all sentient beings of the whole.
So I wish progress and results, as you stated "to have their soul bared to the world, in all of it's honest nakedness."
I confess I can not do that just yet.
 

18 Jul 2010 @ 22:28 by Ariane @81.183.190.25 : Honest nakedness
Thanks for the comments and the ideas.
Yeah, I also feel that this is one of the important direction to go when writing.
But not the only one.

Telling a story is also great way to communicate someting, and the story can be invented or true, does not matter really, it is your creation, so it is as true as you are Truth.  

17 Aug 2010 @ 16:29 by **EN*er*GY** @72.186.178.254 : This helped me!
And I will refer back to this the next time I go to a blocked state of mind.
I think my one excuse that I use on myself is that everyone is blogging!
Too much information.
People are unaware of where there going on the internet.
It's hard for people to read on monitors...

I have alot of books on writing and blogging. Probably the same one's you have in your book case.
Besides the passion I have for the hobby, it's sometimes all about the money & or the stardom.

Thank you!  

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