By HD Silversmith
So clearly the whole casual-blogging thang (i.e., "two to three times a week," days unspecified) just isn't working for me.
Obviously, as I haven't kept to even that loose plan in the past couple of weeks.
I kept it open going into 2010 because, quite frankly, my schedule last semester was an unmitigated frightmare, and I (mistakenly) thought that holding myself accountable for writing every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday on some aspect of the writing process had made things worse.
It hadn't. It made me more productive, and it kept me writing on a regular basis. And I need that -- for my sanity as well as for my well-being as a writer.
Although the financial picture at my university has worsened (and will continue to do so through Fall 2020 at least), my schedule this semester has lightened up a bit, chiefly because I have fewer students (due to enrollment caps on classes mandated by the budget crisis).
I have no excuse not to be blogging regularly.
I seem to do best if I have something to inspire my posts about writing, so I've decided to use that as a reason to work my way through Natalie Goldberg's now-classic Writing Down the Bones (which I'm a little embarrassed to admit I've never read before!).
I'm going to be somewhat less structured about it than I was last fall with Eric Maisel's A Writer's Space and simply take a sentence or idea from what I've read each day and use it as a point of departure for my own musings.
And for now I'll say Tuesdays and Fridays, with addition posts on other or related topics optional.
That's the (revised) plan anyway. Let's see how it goes.
