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Just Who Do You Think You Are?

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Reason Not To Blog:Just Who Do I Think I Am?

Today I started to write and this started to come out. A bunch of reasons not to blog again. This time, instead of analyzing each one separately with an article for this series, I just kept going.

  • With time I do know that I know myself better. And I actually think at times that in knowing myself better, I like myself less.
  • I know that I am a slacker a lot and many times if I can get away with something I will.

It is Hard to Write

Day 20 (September 30th): Documentary
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Reason Not To Blog: It is too hard to write

Then don’t. That’s the simple solution. Stop driving yourself crazy and beating your head against the wall.

And if you can’t. Then deal with it. You will have to find a way.

Writing and blogging is a bitch. There are times when you are in the groove.

I had been slowly writing a post a day for a few weeks when I wrote this post. Today I edited about 7 to get them ready for publishing, wrote another 3 and came up with about 20 new ideas for articles.

Work For Yourself Daily

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Reason Not To Blog: I have to work to put food on the table.

But that is no longer something I can trick myself into thinking any more. I get lost. There are times after a bout of staring at the same php code day after day that I just snap and can’t look at it any more.

It is not a snap, really. I just get easily distracted when I get burnt out and just let myself go with the flow. Because anything is better than going back to that mind numbing code.

More News About Bloghology: Articles in the First Issue

Well, this week was a hectic one. I had all of my articles “written” and interviews sent out for the upcoming issue. But that was only half the job. The other half I finished about two days before the deadline in pure “procrastinate until the very end to see if you can still pull it off” fashion. Half of the writing was editing and proofreading and fleshing out post size anecdotes into true articles.