So I'm just going to keep with the whole sea thing I've got going here.
This is just a first general update and then a behind the scenes!
1. I won Nanowrimo for the fourth time! Which was really awesome, and the LARGE reason no blogging happened last month.
2. I feel really bad about putting up that ahoy post and then not following it with anything. Normally I follow it with something! So I thought I would spend a second today explaining how I write this blog. To give you some idea how big gaps like this happen.
When I first came up the idea for this blog, I immediately wrote down nearly thirty ideas for blog posts. I still have that original list on a email draft and I delete ideas and add as I go along. I would guess 20 of them are still from the original list. Now just one of those ideas usually results in somewhere between 2 to 5 actual blog posts. However I write them all at once and I generally end up with a 4 to 8 page document (single spaced) by the time I'm ready to post the first one. Once I finish a series I'm generally interested in turning around and starting a new one as soon as I can. This, however, is where problems generally occur.
The new idea turns out to be far more complex then I originally thought. Because of this I end up stopping as I try to figure out the best way to organize, present, and divide my ideas into individual posts. And then it sits on my computer until I figure out how exactly to tackle it. The recently finished posts about heroes and villains got it's start as a post on boring heroes the same day I finished the Write, Write, Write post. The new idea got tied in with the good vs evil concept back in August when I wrote the Ahoy post, but that's when I got stuck. In those intervening months I would open up the document, read it and still be stumped. Eventually, as usually happens, I'll get the motivation to really sit down and hammer out the problem. (This happened with a short story once - three whole years between the beginning and the end and the whole thing was only five pages long!)
That's why I end up having these huge blocks between posts. And because I'm only doing this for fun, and not as a dedicated blogger (and I'm heading back to school this spring) this isn't likely to change. Don't worry I'm not planning on stopping, I enjoy it and it helps me grow as a writer to really examine these issues. Hopefully though there shouldn't be so sparse a year again. Let's shot for ten to twenty posts next year shall we?
As for this year - just blame those heroes and villains!
ps. Can anyone tell me why my most viewed posts are all just the update 'new real posts coming soon' stuff? Are you people just really into waiting?
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