So I’ve been sitting here a long time in front of this screen looking for something to say that might interest somebody else. And this is all I got to say:
Sometimes, ya just ain’t got nuttin.’
See you tomorrow.
Wayward Son
Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo.
I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
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Jeff,
And that’s fine.
When I joined Blog365 the exercise was for me as a writer. I can’t say it has caused me to produce better output every day for my score of readers. You can tell “light” days for me (like yesterday). They usually involve a link to somewhere else and a single sentence or paragraph. Yesterday was a bear at work and then we had my folks over for dinner and before you know it it’s 9:00 and “I gotta get somethin’ out on the blog” (pant pant pant).
Which is silly, because the only person to whom I’ve committed to do daily blogging is myself.
But here’s the funny thing. Sometimes I write long, involved rants, er, screeds, um, essays, yeah, that’s it, and I get nothing back in the way of comments. Silence. Crickets chirping, breeze blowing. And sometimes I toss something out there that just comes as a whim – a couple of paragraphs, and blam! I get inundated with all kinds of good comments and a great discussion ensues. After I started noticing that, I noticed that in my daily blog reading sometimes (gasp!) I tend to skim long posts (never yours, of course! :o). I got things to do, people to see, and while I am reading each blog for a reason, sometimes I just don’t have the time to sit and invest the time and mental energy to read an involved post, because then I might feel moved to comment on it, and that will take some time, too, because I don’t want to reward some obvious effort on the author’s part with a mindless, “Me, too!”
All of this is a long-winded way of saying, “Hey – short posts can be fine, ya don’t need to be a fount of wisdom every day. We’ll like you anyway if you just tell a joke, or something that happened at home, or whatever.” It’s also a self-referencing lesson, since it’s a long and involved comment over a post about nothing.
Herein endeth the lesson.
Haha I have those moments more often than I like to admit, (a brain freeze,??) dunno.. have a good day anyhow, Ruth
Well, all’s I can say to that is…I have a pretty choice readership when people leave comments on a blog entry that says I have nothing to say. 😀
Thanks for the encouragement, guys.
I get like that far too often.