Blogging Experiment!

It is begrudgingly that I write; not with ease.  But since my optimistic 2012 New Year’s Resolution to write a blog every week has fallen short somewhat (my output to date being 2/40 posts) I felt like I really should put pen to paper, or finger tips to keyboard as it were. 

So I’m writing.  This is it, this is what I want to do.  This is what I tell everyone is where my real passion lies.  When people ask me in my boring-as-hell day job, if I’d be interested in a permanent position within the boring-as-hell company I say, “Well this is temporary.  You see, I’m really interested in writing-being a journalist!”  This is all fine until someone asks what I write.  Then things all get a bit sketchy.  I have all the intention, all the thoughts of what I could write.  I plan to do so much.  But when it actually comes to the physical writing itself…therein lies the rub.  Writer’s block of course! Yes, since my last flash of inspiration, back in January, which produced the sparkling entertaining and seriously underrated “Top 5 Whistling Songs” (that’s right fellow bloggers, read it and weep!) I have been living in the shadow of every writer’s worst and most feared enemy: Writer’s Block.  Symptoms include increase in appetite, baking (these first two go hand in hand), sudden intense interest in twitter, royal news, Gilmore Girls on E4 (until it moved over to channel 5’s '5 Star' which, fortunately or unfortunately depending on which way you look at it, I don’t know the Sky channel number for), current affairs, long winded sports (snooker, cricket, golf), watching Bargain Hunt, deciding to learn a new language and instigating and being at the centre of an unnecessary number of Spring Cleans.  You can, I’m sure, understand the torture these last 10 months have been for me, living with Writer’s Block. 

Carrying out all of the tasks that procrastination requires me to, I should theoretically have something to write about.  William Styron’s character Stingo, a young writer in New York in the novel ‘Sophie’s Choice’, bemoans his inability to write, “I had the syrup but it wouldn’t pour”.  I feel like I have the components to make the syrup potentially…it’s just the small question of making the syrup and then pouring it.  

I’ve been brutally honest readers.   I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing here or if it’ll be up to scratch but I’m going to give it my best shot for the remaining weeks until New Year.  My technique is going to be to put a list of different subject topics into a hat and then draw them out each week to decide what to write about.  Any suggestions are more than welcome as is any feedback both positive and negative but most importantly constructive!