So there’s a weakness in my recent “I am going to blog more
frequently” plan. Uhm; what to blog about. I’m not doing anything very exciting
at the moment. (I am mostly teaching myself Adobe Illustrator at the moment but I trust that won’t fascinate
anyone?)
I have a theory though. The only answer to a block is to
start doing it anyway: play with your materials, whether they be paint, words
or musical notes. What results might not be brilliant but it will gradually
break the paralysis. I still needed a subject though so I turned to the
internet to tell me what to write about. I googled ‘random blog topic
generator’ and lo, there are such things. I opened the first three, here, here
and here.
The temptation, indeed the instruction on one of the
generators, is to keep pressing the button until you get something you fancy
writing about but I thought that might be a bit dangerous. It might not go on
infinitely; the generator might suddenly emit a big sigh and stop producing
ideas because nothing could please me. So I decided I’d press each of the
generators once and then I’d have to choose from one of those topics.
The first one gave me: “One
of my favourites is Bagels.” One of my favourite what? And why the capital
letter? Is Bagels a place I haven’t heard of? I let out a big sigh and clicked
the next tab.
The second one was: “Aristotle’s
philosophy” Oh dear. This is somewhat shaky territory. In my dim and
distant past is a classics degree. So dim and distant that I can remember
almost nothing and Husband has been petitioning me for years to return my
degree certificate to the university. Today, though, I search around in my head
and ‘Nichomachean Ethics’ appears; my mouth goes dry and I feel a bit faint. I
go and have a look at Wikipedia. After consideration I’ve decided that I haven’t
forgotten it, I’ve actually suppressed it and for very good reason.
I move on to the third randomly generated topic: “What do
you think of your children?” Crumbs. We’re on really hazardous ground with that
subject. What I think of my children is that they know how to find my blog and
that’s all there is to say on that subject.
Still, I’ve written a blog post huh?
