Last week, I got overwhelmed to the point of not doing a post. This week, it almost happened again. As I remembered that I have people who read this blog(both of you), I wondered what the hell was happening to me. When the answer crept into my head - life - it got me thinking about other websites that are on my blogroll, and how many have disappeared.
First, yes, I need to clean up my blogroll. There are a few on the right side of the screen that haven't been active for months(or longer). But I'm a lazy bastard, so I'll clean them up as soon as I get a chance during my vacation coming up soon. Still, as I looked at cleaning, it got me thinking about those that are no longer around.
Kevin Hanrahan is a good friend of mine from school, and he had a promising start with his book, Paws On The Ground. Unfortunately, he's been consumed with parts of his career, and I haven't heard anything about his novel in...well...forever. His website is now dark. Go ahead - click on the link. You'll get nothing.
Christine Rice is a writer I've interacted with on a few occasions, but her site hasn't appeared active in over a year. On the rare occasion I've had the chance to browse around and look at other blogs, I've found myself wondering what has happened to hers. I suspect that, much like many others, there are life events that have gotten in the way.
Those life events seem to be at the crux of the websites I've seen that haven't been active. DeAnna Knippling hasn't put up anything new for a while, and many others have changed platforms so often that I find myself jumping from one to the next to keep track. It's exhausting.
So as I came up to tonight, life events once again threatening to overwhelm me, I wondered if this was the beginning of the end for my own site. After all, I'd already limited the number of posts I was doing each week, and perhaps this was the natural course of how it was going to end. You know - life wins, and all that bullshit. But then I remembered that I have a novel coming out in a few months, and I need a platform. I also need to keep writing in some vein since I'll go insane otherwise(to say nothing of dulling my ability to craft coherent sentences), so I buckled down and wrote. I also came up with several topics for the next posts, and I've dedicated myself to finding the time to write them. I hope I stick to it.
It's easy for life to take over, but you have to stay engaged if you want to be successful(which I aim to be). Not that that necessarily translates, but if you lose dedication in one area, it will fall in others, and that would truly be the end.
First, yes, I need to clean up my blogroll. There are a few on the right side of the screen that haven't been active for months(or longer). But I'm a lazy bastard, so I'll clean them up as soon as I get a chance during my vacation coming up soon. Still, as I looked at cleaning, it got me thinking about those that are no longer around.
Kevin Hanrahan is a good friend of mine from school, and he had a promising start with his book, Paws On The Ground. Unfortunately, he's been consumed with parts of his career, and I haven't heard anything about his novel in...well...forever. His website is now dark. Go ahead - click on the link. You'll get nothing.
Christine Rice is a writer I've interacted with on a few occasions, but her site hasn't appeared active in over a year. On the rare occasion I've had the chance to browse around and look at other blogs, I've found myself wondering what has happened to hers. I suspect that, much like many others, there are life events that have gotten in the way.
Those life events seem to be at the crux of the websites I've seen that haven't been active. DeAnna Knippling hasn't put up anything new for a while, and many others have changed platforms so often that I find myself jumping from one to the next to keep track. It's exhausting.
So as I came up to tonight, life events once again threatening to overwhelm me, I wondered if this was the beginning of the end for my own site. After all, I'd already limited the number of posts I was doing each week, and perhaps this was the natural course of how it was going to end. You know - life wins, and all that bullshit. But then I remembered that I have a novel coming out in a few months, and I need a platform. I also need to keep writing in some vein since I'll go insane otherwise(to say nothing of dulling my ability to craft coherent sentences), so I buckled down and wrote. I also came up with several topics for the next posts, and I've dedicated myself to finding the time to write them. I hope I stick to it.
It's easy for life to take over, but you have to stay engaged if you want to be successful(which I aim to be). Not that that necessarily translates, but if you lose dedication in one area, it will fall in others, and that would truly be the end.
A gaol without a plan is just a wish. Execution without strategy is just movement. A good writer should strive to achieve discourse. Hold to your course Russ. I like to see the discussion it generates.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jimbo. :-)
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