A Post A Day: Day 1

Not that anybody has noticed, but I haven't written anything for the blog in well over a month. In fact, in the past year, I've barely written anything at all. I keep falling into the trap of not writing to concentrate on other things, and then hating myself for doing so, and then giving up on writing completely, telling myself I'm not a writer and never will be.

So I've come up with an idea. Not a fantastic idea or even an original one, but something I hope I can benefit from in some way.

Regardless of form, style, theme, tone, length, or whether I even like the piece or not, I'm going to post something everyday for a month.

Now, in your head you might be thinking (by which I mean, this was how I initially reacted to the version of me that had the idea), 'hey, if you are capable of writing something everyday, why haven't you just done it already? Like, how can you produce something everyday if you can't write just one thing a month?'

And then the ambitious version of me is like, 'because I'm too hung up by the impossible standards you set for us! If your standards weren't so high we'd be less critical and could produce loads more.'

And then the critical version of me is like, 'yeah but we don't want to be producing mounds of average shit-'

And then the self-conscious version of me butts in, 'yeah because then everyone will think we're average and not special.'

And then the hungry version of me is like, 'hey, you should go buy a box of donuts and eat all of them in one sitting.'

And then the version of me in charge of self-control says nothing.

And now I'm walking to the shop.

Wait, what was I on about? Oh yeah.

So I will be trying to post something everyday for the next month. I don't know what yet. There might be some old unpublished stuff that I thought too bad to be seen, but I'm mainly hoping it will inspire me to write new stuff again. Either way, I will be posting stuff daily to the blog and you should return to read it. And then share it. And then give me money for the joy I have brought your miserable life. No? Fuck you.