More than ten years I’ve been blogging, and at this very same URL, even. I used to blog pretty much daily, sometimes more than once a day. I’d post interesting links and random stuff and whatever I felt like chattering on about. And I don’t really do that any more, so the blog languishes…
Partly, you can blame Twitter. Most of my links and inane chatter goes there now (though it’s supposed to get auto-posted here in a daily digest, which usually works, but not always). That’s what Twitter is for, isn’t it? Inane chatter and random links? Yeah, well, that’s what I use it for, and it works a treat for that. So, no need to blog it, if it’s being tweeted.
Another thing is that I blog elsewhere, in addition to this blog, and sometimes that takes up a great deal of my creative writing energy. I do seem to have a basic inner drive to write stuff down, but there’s a limit. Once I’ve sorted out whatever it is I’m thinking about (which is mostly why I write), I’m done until I have something else I want to write down or sort out.
Mostly, my perspective has changed in a lot of ways, some dramatic and some very subtle. The stuff I used to write about here is sometimes of no interest to me now. Much of the time, I haven’t got the same kind of burning need to vent or rant or express my opinions because I just can’t see the point (this is not universally true, of course; I still sometimes vent, rant, and express my opinions). And, if it’s mostly pointless and inane, I just tweet it, so…
Finally, my life just isn’t that interesting. It’s quite routine, and even monotonous. This is exactly how I like my life to be, so please don’t think I’m complaining. I like working spontaneously within a set and fairly stable routine. Routine makes me comfortable, and, frankly, it beats the hell out of constant drama and upheaval, which is what I used to have in my life (thankfully, I wasn’t blogging then, or I would have been the most negative, annoying blogger imaginable, always whinging about this or that; I have Twitter now to whinge, of course, and my life is no longer unending drama.)
So, that appears to be about the size of it. Blame Twitter and my other blogs, I mean, if you care in the least. (BTW, it’s not hard to find out what my other blogs are. A little snooping around my website will turn up links, some very obvious, some subtle…)
