Really, I should edit that title to “I’ve GIVEN All I Can, I Need Something More”. But holy sheesh, that epitomizes my entire life…
My life is quite boring. In a good way, I guess, depending on how you look at it. Which is why I have never fit into a niche out here in the blogging world. Unless, of course, I just haven’t found the mundane, boring life bloggers, which would be the pigeon hole I would be tucked neatly away in.
Writing about my day to day crap? It annoys the hell out of me. I can’t do it, I won’t do it to you. That’s not exactly the type of writing I want to do when I say I want to be a writer when I grow up. While it’s cute when my son says things about thinking the sun is G-D’s head and the spaghetti noodles that shoots off the sun is his hair…
It’s really on truly cute to me.
The most exciting things I’ve done in my blogging life lately had to do with writing. STORIES. I write about fake people and their lives MUCH better than my own. Because anything can happen. Not just hey, I was listening to the radio and I had this epiphany type post shit I’ve been coming up with lately.
I’m putting myself to sleep. I can’t even imagine what I must be doing to you.
I need change. Not an Obama-like change, I’m talking the real thing. A new project, anything other than MOMMY FUCKING BLOGGING until my head goes numb.
I can’t write another blog post about how messy my kids are, how busy the dust bunnies are in their procreating or how dirty my toilets get.
Done with it. Sorry, I am. It’s killing me. I’m dying a slow, painful death for everyone to watch. Heck, have you noticed my lack of comments. At first I thought I offended the blogging G-Ds but then I realized that I’m just boring lately.
Either that or I’m having a nervous breakdown, mid-life crisis, personal catastrophic type of event of seismic proportions and everyone is afraid to tell me in fear of pushing me that much closer to the edge. Is that what it is? C’mon, you can tell me.
I need something different. Something more and not altogether blog-like, but kind of. Not that I’m giving up blogging, because we all know that is an impossibility for me. Every time I say bye, I pop back up like 30 seconds later.
I want to do more creative writing. Write more short stories about the people in my head because they possibly lead way more exciting lives than anyone I know. I’m deciding if my blog needs more structure. Like, Meme Monday, Two on Tuesday, etc…(just examples, I hate meme’s).
I’m pretty sure that I’ve even written this type of post before. But, if anyone is interested, I need to start a writing blog with prompts and real writing.
So yeah. Let’s talk. Pranksters need not apply. Only serious enquiries will be considered.
M’kay?
I guess I’m just having all sorts of online issues, aren’t I?
I believe there are all kinds of “prompts” out there – MamaKat springs to mind as one. I know she does weekly prompts. Just write what *you* want to write – whether it’s about the cute things your kid says, short stories, etc. In the end, it’s your blog and your self-expression.
Gigi´s last blog post ..Sometimes you win-sometimes you lose- but in the end its how you behave
And I just have to ask (cause you seem all web-savvy and stuff) how come in my tag line on the comment it doesn’t update to my most recent post? I’ve noticed it does this across the board – not just here? It’s driving me mad.
Gigi´s last blog post ..Sometimes you win-sometimes you lose- but in the end its how you behave
I’ve been doing a 100 Word Challenge each week and will be participating in the National Novel Writing Month in November. I wanted to stretch more too, write more fiction and these are good prompts for me. If you were to do the NaNoWriMo we could work together. Bounce ideas around, help critique each other’s writing… I’m game if you are.
If not, just start writing what you want. It’s about what makes you happy. I loved your fiction writing! How cool to put those into a novel!
Tara R.´s last blog post ..Not flash fiction- more like streaking fiction…
Running a site should please YOU, it should be fun, something that excites you, something you can’t wait to do. Write what really moves yo9u, your readers, your people, they will come!
Do what you want; if it brings you more happiness to create life with words rather than relay your own, all the more power to ya, darlin’. Above all, make yourself happy.
Just show me where I can read it! (And probably not comment, as I haven’t been in quite some time. So. Much. Work. to do lately.)
xoxo
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I say start a new blog focused on creative writing. The only person stopping you is you. So what if no one reads it when you first launch it (I highly doubt that will happen because you’ve built such a great community here). If being a “mommy blogger” (hey, what happened to “lifestyle blogger”??) is driving you nuts, then shift gears for a bit. See where this new path takes you. It can’t hurt to try, right?
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Why start a new blog every time you get blocked? You’ve got a title that’s good-to-go for just about anything you want to write. You just need to widen your topics. Write about your childhood, your best friend’s childhood, your best friend, your pet peeve, whatever, make something up, anything/something you haven’t written about lately or at all. I know the whole mommy-blog thing puts a tremendous amount of stress on women to be funny, spontaneous, original and interesting EVERY DAY but let’s face it, some days are boring. I’m not saying you should emulate me, I don’t think I’ve written anything on my blog since last July, but neither do you have to emulate mommy-blogging internet-super-stars. One thing I have learned is never, no, not ever, never write about how bad you feel about not having updated your blog often enough or not being able to think of anything interesting to write about. Don’t apologize or explain; just write when/what/as you feel like it. If blogging isn’t doing it for you, try your hand at storywrite.com, writing.com or one of those other sites which comes up when you google: write stories
Best regards from a passing web traveler.
I’d love to see more creative writing from you – you are so great at it! And if you posted it as a prompt for others to get involved, well, I’d try and join in on that too! I am one of those boring life bloggers you are pigeonholed with, so you know I’m on your team! Love you
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