I’m socked at just how much my writing skills have waned with my break in blogging.
There was a time where writing even blog entries came naturally and easy to me. Long time readers may recall the days where I posted frequently and prolifically and I recall in those heady days, how easy writing came to me. I don’t just mean blogging or the occasional internet quip either, but reports, reviews as well as documentation and such. Having made an active effort to write again I now realize just how difficult writing inertia is to overcome.
It’s not that I don’t write of course, a look at the blog at work will quickly show I’m the most active poster there but this has all been in a dry “no style at all” form to summaries or quickly explain something. I used to consider myself a bit of an extrovert but don’t consider that true now at all, if it ever was.
In particular I notice the difficulties I’m having trying to blog through this ‘Gaming with Librarians‘ thing I started a few days back. It’s hard not to notice the difficulties I have extending a piece of writing past the length of a Tweet or bullet list and I feel something is missing in my life because of it. There’s a freedom in being able to just sit down and write, I’ll leave it up to you as to weather I ever did it well, but just the ability to put an idea down in a way you’re happy with it is amazingly powerful and therapeutic. I look forward to relating my experiences with the GiL group in the weeks ahead but don’t envy myself the long road ...
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