Sat, 23 Jun 2007

I got stuck . . .

. . . while writing a blog. It hasn't happened often and, in fact, this might be the first time in years of blogging where I actually started a blog and decided, what I had to say wasn't really worth it. It's an interesting experience. I actually got several paragraphs out -- seemed to be on a role -- and then I read again and thought, "what am I doing?" It seemed that the thought I started out with just wasn't coming together. What I had written seemed disjointed and didn't really express the original idea which sparked the thought.

I actually put the thing away and came back to it today. This is something I seldom do with a blog. Usually, I get the thought, let it percolate for a while and then sit and compose the blog in a single setting. But, in this case, I just couldn't publish the blog as it was.

I came back to the blog this morning and read through it. My thought was to revise it to make my point. But, as I completed it, I realized that I had lost the thought. Not really lost more misplaced. That is, I couldn't revise the piece to express the thought in the way that I wanted to . . . so I deleted it.

What happened? I'm not sure. Perhaps the original thought just wasn't jelled enough to give me the words to express it.

My thinking process which results in blogs starts with something which triggers a thought. I am usually some place incovenient for writing like the shower, car, work, so I record the basic thought for later consideration. I regularly drop thoughts at the point where I return to them. I look at my notes and find that the spark at the moment that I had the though just isn't there any more. This may be a good thing. If I can't sustain the thought for that amount of time, it probably isn't worth writing about.

With this piece, I got stuck much further in the process. Perhaps I came back to the thought too soon or perhaps I just couldn't make the evaluation of the thought until I had put down words which tried to express my view.

Whatever, I think it was a good thing. Too much is written which probably should never be published. I probably have some here and other places I have written.

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