Sunday Blogs - The Importance of Scheduling

So, it always at these moments in time when I've realised I've started something and I begin to slightly regret it because I'm tired, lazy or simply questioning why I would bother doing anything like this, considering that I'm not interesting and I have nothing interesting to say. The fact that no one is reading this also plays a factor into my desire to just go "meh" I started this on a whim and no one will be any wiser if I just don't bother with it, like my attempt at starting my own movie review site which I lost interest in keeping up to date and who was I doing it for anyway. I don't have an audience, I have no one to please, so why bother.... That is the problem but as I said in my first post this, more than anything, is for me. It is to force me to break my habits of procrastination and exercise my writing skills. (and now I feel stupid for saying that I have writing skills) So I've decided that Sunday will be blog day regardless of how I'm feeling or whether or not I think I have something interesting to say. I've come to realise that scheduling and building up good regular habits is important to be successful in your endeavours and since it is not something I'm good at, it is something I need to practise more and apply more in my life and a Sunday blog seems like a good way to start. This will also force me to share the thoughts I have already noted down as interesting but have since hesitated to share with the world. I have a tendency to be pondering things or have a thought cross my mind and think "Oh that's interesting, maybe I should share this with the world" Then I go back to it and hesitate about sharing it because I wonder about its validity and merit and whether or not it will just make me out to be a pretentious prat with an under-functioning brain, if this is all I can think of. Anyway what I'm trying to say is that by giving myself a deadline of a Sunday blog I'm eventually going to have to start putting these thoughts out there since I can't possibly spend every week talking about how I'm going to start writing something at some stage...

It Begins!

Although I realise that I’m several years behind the trend with this whole blog lark, I felt it was time for me to actually start one. This unfortunately is indicative of my approach to life; I have a tendency to think over or rather over think doing something for several years, weighing up the merits but ultimately going for it when the moment has passed. Nevertheless, here it is: My Blog. The thing about it is I’m not really doing this for anybody but myself. I’m not sure I’m even going to tell anyone about this, so my relevancy as a blogger and when I started blogging doesn’t really matter. If you want to be a writer you need to write. That’s what I’ve been told anyway, so it’s time I put that into practise. So at its heart this blog is a way of forcing me to write, forcing me to think of short, hopefully interesting pieces that are potentially going to be read by actual people over the interwebs. Though in all honesty, since I'll probably be the blog's sole reader this will really be a an act of purist narcissism. On the off chance that anyone actually stumbles upon this blog, for your information, this will be a place where I will occasionally, hopefully regularly, talk about things that interest me, express whatever thoughts might cross my mind and even from time to time discuss my life. So, yes, this blog will be filled with my pretentious, pseudo-intellectual drivel but maybe you'll learn to love how I prattle on about nothing in particular in a vain attempt to justify my wistful self image of being in some shape or form a writer...