Flagon With The Dragon

Writers Atrophy

// June 17th, 2010 // Fluff

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 to recovery I’m on to regain some measure of literary expression.

Stay tuned and lets see where this goes.

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