I live in Noosa. Late August we experienced floods. Simultaneously I was experiencing blogger's drought. Why? I've spent a lot of time thinking about why. I had ideas but I couldn't bring myself to write.
I think I was approaching blogging with the wrong attitude. I needed some time out to do some 'attitude alteration'. To get some perspective.
Here's what was going wrong:
- I thought a post had to wow and impress. Wrong. It just had to communicate something. Anything.
- I thought I needed affirmation from others to blog. I wanted comments. Lots of them. Even though everything I read told me not to do this, I tripped up over my shoelace and fell over.
- I got overwhelmed with all the conversations. I like things in neat packages and let's face it, who can really understand the overwhelming amount of conversations going on out there - somewhere? I wanted to get it all straight in my head. Simply impossible. Like a river, I just have to go with the flow and see where I end up.
So now I'll blog because I want to. Without putting pressure on myself to be perfect. Instead I'll just be. The drought is over. Lesson learnt.
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