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Blogging

Pete doesn’t know what to blog about any more. Neither does Joi. I kind of know what they mean.

When I started this site it was because I wanted to write something more creative than reviews of computer kit, and I wrote about the blandest, most ordinary stuff, simply because it was easy to dump it in a content management thingie and hit GO.

I still do write the blandest, most ordinary stuff, but now people read it, which makes me wonder whether I should write all that bland ordinary stuff at all, or whether I ought to make up something more interesting.

There was a blog once by a girl dying of cancer. I forget who she was now. It came to an end when she died, though.

Except she didn’t, because she never existed in the first place. It was a made-up blog, by someone who never admitted as much, but is there really anything wrong with that. Blogs are just stories about peoples’ lives, and as such a made-up story is as good as any other, isn’t it?

I don’t intend to do fiction on here, though. Fiction was, after all, one of the other reasons why I started writing it. I thought that chucking out easy words about the stuff I was doing would get me into the swing of writing more without really having to think about it, and that the writing of the book would follow on almost passively.

So anyway, thinking about all of this today, I opened up the book again. It’s not been touched since October when I went off on holiday, and then came back to a new job that is taking up all of my time. I loaded every chapter, recounted the words and dropped the numbers into Excel, and it gave me a lovely surprise.

I’d thought I had put down 94,000 words so far, but it seems it’s far higher. 109,148 words. That would be 317 pages if it was a paperback novel.

It’s still a long way from done, though. I’m about half way, I reckon, so it’s a 600-odd page saga from the looks of things. I need to do some serious trimming before I’m done.

Before that, though, I need to do some more serious writing.

It won’t be tonight, though. January 1 was Mark T’s birthday, so we’re off out celebrating. Don’t know how many people I’ll know there as he always manages to drag in a crowd from the far-flung corners of the nation, which makes for an interesting mix…

If you liked that post, then try these...

No gym on September 12th, 2004

Saint Etienne at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on September 14th, 2008

Sound advice on July 4th, 2002

Ouch on January 27th, 2004

Showtime on May 2nd, 2002


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8 Responses to “Blogging”

  1. seancorfield Says:
    January 10th, 2004 at 9:36 pm

    I have my calendar set to email me a reminder every day at 11am to blog something. If I get a few days behind, the reminders stack up so I know how many entries I ought to write… Of course, if I get the urge to write something “off schedule” that’s a bonus.

    Even with the technical focus of my blog - started for a very specific reason (to share information about web development and, in particular, ColdFusion) - it can be hard to think of something to write every day. Sometimes I’m just too busy, sometimes I’m just not in the mood, sometimes I really have nothing useful to say. And on some of those occasions, I just write a brief entry apologizing for the lack of entries, just like Pete did!

    Joi’s entry is very interesting - that whole issue of collapsing facets of your identity was not something I’d really thought about. I’ll have to mull that over (and will probably blog it).

  2. Kev Says:
    January 10th, 2004 at 10:44 pm

    I like this blog. It’s random. However, I think it’s the bloggers that just report on what they did that day (kinda like a traditional diary) that get fed up quickly and stop writing.

    I much prefer a blog that shows me the ‘whole’ person, not just what he ate for breakfast and what movie he saw last night.

    The whole person needs to have opinions, rants and moody spells, just like normal life. But too many bloggers try to be non-offensive and ‘nice’ all of the time and nobody is ever like that. We all watch the news every day and swear and curse at something, I wanna hear about it, it helps me form a true picture of the person that’s writing. So in that sense, yes I agree, some bloggers just think far too hard about what to write and it needn’t be like that.

  3. Kev Says:
    January 11th, 2004 at 8:39 am

    Your book page count is not bad at all Nick. I am currently reading a fantastic novel by Graham Swift that’s just 244 pages, so it’s the old story of quality not quantity I guess.

  4. Graham Says:
    January 11th, 2004 at 11:25 am

    Nick
    I enjoy your random writings. as Kevin said above it enables us to know and experirence something of the real you. That is always a privilege of course for us readers. I look forward to finding out what is happening to you and your thoughts on the ordinary things of life.
    By the way, I am looking forward to reading your new book when it is eventually finished.
    If it is as good a style of writting as your blog, then it should be a good read.

  5. Graham Says:
    January 11th, 2004 at 11:25 am

    Nick
    I enjoy your random writings. as Kevin said above it enables us to know and experirence something of the real you. That is always a privilege of course for us readers. I look forward to finding out what is happening to you and your thoughts on the ordinary things of life.
    By the way, I am looking forward to reading your new book when it is eventually finished.
    If it is as good a style of writting as your blog, then it should be a good read.

  6. Krist Says:
    January 11th, 2004 at 12:20 pm

    Nik, I love your blog, for the reasons mentioned above. You are a bloody good writer, even on the most mundane of subjects, and I also love your photos, you’ve got such an eye for colours and settings. You are such an inspiration sometimes. The only thing that is completely lost on me is the technical stuff, I am not a very technical person.

    Good luck with the novel, mate.

  7. Miles Treacher Says:
    January 12th, 2004 at 11:40 pm

    Nik,
    I also enjoy your blog, it is nice to keep up with what you are doing. Likewise I look forward to digesting your book when you publish it.

  8. Pete Says:
    January 13th, 2004 at 2:56 pm

    I think it happens to every blogger after a while. I think the thing is to stick with it. At least that’s what I’m planning to do. Nice to hear that I’m not the only one finding it hard to write at the mo.