…but I have learned something. Blogging can be - no, not addictive - but one of those things that reproaches you by sitting in the back of your mind saying “you really must attend to this.” As in pay the bills, get that stuff to the dry cleaners, call that old friend you haven’t heard from in ages… Do something about the blogs. Plural yet. No, I realize, I am not nuts as I posited in that first post. What I’m doing is looking for another bolt hole. Something to do instead of write.
One of the most important lessons for novice writers is that writing is really, really hard. It is as if you are trying to cross a huge chasm because something you want desperately is on the other side, but to get it you must launch yourself into space and make an enormous leap of faith. Hard and scary. So you find reasons not to do it. Blogging is one of the more seductive.
You would think that by now I’d have learned how to quell the bad angels. I have not done so entirely - I doubt any writer has - but I can offer a few hard-learned techniques that usually work.