Andy's Blog » Blogging http://www.andys-blog.com Just another exercise in vanity Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Looking for inspirition, divine or otherwise http://www.andys-blog.com/2010/06/10/looking-for-inspirition-divine-or-otherwise/ http://www.andys-blog.com/2010/06/10/looking-for-inspirition-divine-or-otherwise/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:04:02 +0000 andy http://www.andys-blog.com/?p=1496 The problem with blogging, apart from the obvious lack of skills in the subtle art of stringing words into a semi-cohesive sentence, is… is… well this!  I know what I want to write about, I have a pithy title, a keyboard on which to make nice tapping noises with, favourite music playing in the background and a blank screen looking back at a blank mind.

I must have spent the best part of 4 hours+, with keyboard at the ready, looking at a conceptual “blank piece of paper” wondering how the hell I was going to start the brain splurge off.

Once the first sentence is down it’s pretty easy to follow up with the rest of the drivel.  However last nights post was sitting on my screen looking back at me sullenly with its nice new title, but conspicuously light in the word count.  A couple of cool pictures, yes… words, no.  How to statrt?

  • Call me Ishmael…
  • Eh bien, mon Prince…
  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
  • It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…

Unfortunately all a little “un-unique” and not really suitable as an opener for the post I had in mind.

Ah well the post did finally manage to find its legs and limp onto the screen, in a fashion, although the hour of its final re-appearance (2.05am) did make trying to shift my carcass to work this morning somewhat harder than it usually is.

Oh how an arteeest is made to suffer for his art!

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The problem with leading an Internet life is that sometimes the things you wish to offload in a very public way, i.e. via a blog, have to be communicated in a sort of code, using vague but hopefully meaningful phrases that convey their impact without actually letting on entirely what is going on, apart from to those people who are in the know.

This, unfortunately, doesn’t always work quite to plan!  Messages are lost in translation, or even missed completely.  The vague too vague, and the intended audience unsure as to what the hell has just been said, even to those people who *are* in the know!

Blogs by their very nature are NOT the whole truth of a person, they can’t be – no one would ever divulge that amount of information about themselves or their feelings for fear of ridicule, hurt, or in worst cases social stigmatism (depending on how exotic your truth is!).

Until I feel braver about divulging more about myself… viva la code breaking whilst I do some discreet anonymous blogging elsewhere! ;)

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