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When all else fails, just blog

by Darren

Have you ever been sitting around, not sure about what to blog on? Or worse yet, you’ve been wasting hours looking for “related news”, but you just don’t find it interesting. Well I know this feeling well, and I decided on a new rule: “When all else fails, just blog”. Sort of catchy, really? And what praytell do I mean by this and what are the distinct advantages of this method?

You’re not getting paid to be a theoretician.

You get paid to communicate to people through the written word. So what better way to do that to write some words? I know it sounds simple, and in reality it is. But you know what happens? You end up going from having nothing to blog about, to being halfway done before you even know it?

What are some of the advantages of the “Just Blog” lifestyle?

Easy, you end up having plenty of posts. Sure, some are 5 star award-winning mega-pieces and others are more like mindless drivel, but at least you didn’t lay down your sword (keyboard) and just die on the field. No! You went for it. You blogged. And let’s face it, pal, blogging didn’t get to be a verb by being a lazy discipline. Blogging rewards go to those who blog.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Before I started this post, I had no idea what I planned on talking about. I had been mindlessly searching the blogosphere for something to comment on. Hmm, my choices were the “New Dell Blog”, “Amanda’s Replacement at Rocketboom” and some other stories of either worse pedigree. A thought flashed through the fertile grounds of my grey matter: why not just blog? Hell, just start writing. If worse comes to worse, you’ll at least be closer to finishing then if you do nothing at all. The thought was so sublime, so perfect in theory and execution that I decided right there to do just that.

All else has failed, yet I blogged. I can’t determine how successful my blogging has been today. I’ll leave that up to you to decide. Should I have admitted defeat and left today’s entry blank? Or was I right for “just blogging”.