Post Envy

Consider this a To blog or not to blog interlude:

Wil Wheaton wrote in a recent post about his respect for writers Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi and how his developing fiction writing skills don't match up:

I find myself feeling like that more and more with various authors. I read something and think, "Man, I wish I could put words and images together like that!"

I'd just like to say I completely agree with this statement but I'd like to add another name: Wil Wheaton himself.

I've been reading his blog for a couple of years, along with his other web writing like Games of Our Lives, and Just a Geek is one of the few hardbacks I own.

Man, I wish I could put posts and online articles together like that!

To blog, or not to blog ...

As you might have noticed, if you even exist at-all, I've not really bloged in a while. Apart from some random bits of stuff I've been off the posting-wagon since December 2005.

There are some practical reasons for this.

I have been busy moving and am now the proud owner of my first property, a nice little one-bedroom flat in a cool looking 100-year-old, 4-storey, redbrick converted school building. This has meant two things: one, I've had a lot less money to spend and two, I was physically off-line for a couple of months while I moved and had my broadband installed.

But to be honest these problem were resolved months ago. The main reason is I’ve had something of an existential crisis about my reasons for continuing to blog.

In my first post I said “The reason for doing this blog ... well truthfully there isn't one” but that wasn’t entirely truthful.

I had this idea that it would be a good way to record and share the things in the interweb that I liked and also a way to practice and publish my writing; something between an old fashioned link-list and micro-journalism.

Things started off well. My posts were irregular but a pleasant mix between the micro-journalism, links to the fun and the interesting on the web and original content (photos and the like). I even branched out into other specific blogs, one to record my birthday trip to America and a communal blog with my mate to dramatise our Urban Dead games. There were a couple more blogs that stayed at the idea stage but the whole blogging experience was ticking along nicely.

So, what went wrong?

To be continued …