Comments on: Where has the mojo gone?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:59:55 +0000

Wild Blackberry Cobbler is the hot item

LOL. Must be all the bugs searching Google for a high-energy fix. With 14 tablespoons of sugar that must have been written by a NZer

By: ohwailywaily

ohwailywaily — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:47:26 +0000

As usual, Bruce, you have words of wisdom and encouragement to share.

I feel like I have fallen into the meaningful trap – that is, wanting to write smart and meaningful things while actually mostly blandly describing daily events.

As for things getting the stats – currently Wild Blackberry Cobbler is the hot item – go figure?!

I am particularly taken with your Tuscan villa idea – but I’d much rather take myself there in person than in my mind.

Perhaps rather than reflection, I should have classed this post as a bit of a bleat. Still, I am nothing if not stubborn, so there will continue to be a slow stream of daily life events popping up as I feel the urge to write about them. I will just keep my fingers crossed that doing so will return my version of mojo.

Oh, and by way of preview – there will be one almighty bleat post coming up in the next month or two…

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:02:31 +0000

Sorry you feel your lost your mojo Mrs O. But don’t fall into the trap of feeling you have to write, and that when you do it must be “meaningful“—otherwise you’ll cease to enjoy writing. And you have no obligation on your own blog to do anything other than enjoy yourself!

And for what it’s worth I’m personally very happy to read what tricks Miss O is learning, or what’s happening re learning WordPress, or what you’ve been stitching, or how your running is going (or not). It establishes a connection spanning 12,000 miles that I value and, importantly, is a breath of fresh air amongst all the nit-picking and agitation in the tech sites I mostly read (or produce, as the case may be!).

Yes, you could keep a private journal cataloging the “ordinary” adventure that is life, but the “do follow” stream in my feed reader would be poorer for it if you did. What interests you (something you read on the web, for example) may interest your readers, but not be reflected in the comment count (it’s interesting that, BTW, how sometimes the stuff that really gets you going is apparently ignored, whereas the “shall I blog this or not” posts often get the attention!).

Some bloggers do take holidays, and why not? Indeed, not thinking about something for a bit can put the “creative” back into creative writing. During the writing of my second book I had a stubborn “writer’s block”, which was cured by a stay at a villa in Tuscany… so maybe you can take yourself there, mentally.

Don’t go for too long, however, as you’ll be missed.