Reading and Writing

Jan 30 2010

Published by Kirsten under Reading & Writing

What a long blog break. It’s my intention to blog nearly every day, and when that doesn’t happen I start getting more and more down about not having posted anything. I think blogging is like exercise - if you stop for any reason it’s harder and harder to pick it up again.

But I don’t want to stop blogging. I love blogging, I love my blog, and I love reading other blogs. It’s just that I do other things with my spare time besides park my ass in front of the computer. Need to be at a computer to blog. Wait, when did this become a post full of excuses?

It’s no secret that I read a lot of books. While reading and taking in these stories, I’m also thinking about some pretty awesome post ideas. Of course, they leave my mind as soon as I fall asleep. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of travel memoirs. If you look at my Goodreads page, you’ll see. The travel memoir has been an interesting category for me. On the one hand, I think I like memoirs or memoir-style books the best. At least, I like reading first person narration. On the other hand, I miss traveling. I traveled somewhat in my younger days - before I bought a house, moved to Vegas and got married. Now all my travel time is earmarked for visiting family. Not that that’s a bad thing, since I love my family, but with limited funds and limited vacation time available, it doesn’t leave room for much else. And without being able to travel much, it’s kinda hard to write about it, unless you want to hear about all the virtual traveling I do via Google Maps.

I’m interested in writing. It was always one of my best subjects in school, and one of my favorite (so long as I could write something I enjoyed. If I didn’t enjoy the topic, then writing about it sucked). When I’m reading just about anything, I’m always thinking about what I could be writing. I want to write more about my travels - perhaps I should dig out my old diaries. I knew that making a specific point of writing down everything that happens when I’m traveling would be handy someday. I also want to write more memoir-type stuff. Stories about me from way back when. And I want to work on how to get these ideas out of my head and on the computer. That’s the biggest challenge of all. And of course I want to continue my Encyclopedia of Me series.

I need to make a point of writing and blogging more. I need to try to do that without multi-tasking myself to death on the computer. Gosh, that’s hard. It’s like I have internet ADD. As I write this, I have 5 tabs open - Facebook, Twitter, the “write post” tab for Wordpress, Google Reader, and my blog, so that I can easily find links for that handy linking to yourself thing that all the pros advocate. Maybe that’s what it takes. Maybe if I stop trying to do everything, I’ll accomplish something. I think I read that once before. It’s something to try. But first, real life beckons.

2 Comments to “Reading and Writing”

# Zhu (94 comments.)on 30 Jan 2010 at 7:34 pm

There is nothing wrong with blogging less often - for instance, there is no way I could blog everyday, my three times a week schedule works for me.
# Kirstenon 31 Jan 2010 at 8:46 am

Yeah, but even though I WANT to be able to put up a post more often, I can barely keep a once a week schedule. Time flies, then I realize that it’s been two weeks since the last post. Kinda tough to write if I don’t write anything!