Lame-O! blog!!

I suspect I’m not the only one who has to struggle to get the hang of blogging. I have seen writers on some forums I read who say they just don’t get writing for blogs at all. (Their reasons are really about working for free, when as writers we have to work very hard to get paid anything at all for our work. Good points, those!)

But one writes if one is a writer, and most of the time that includes all sorts of things, paid or non. And I’ve neglected this one a bit.

My nonfiction agent mentioned to me that PhDs have the hardest time of anyone writing the “complete idiots guides” kinds of books. I think it’s for the same reason that I have dawdled on this blog. Obsessionality, pure and simple. Obsessionals are both excellent and lousy writers — excellent in dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s (for those of you who actually recall how one does dot i’s and cross t’s with an actual pencil or pen.) The lousy part is letting it flow… and keeping a post within bounds. The tendency is to worry too much, or to over-plan.

I should actually know something about this — I even got Writer’s Digest to buy an article on obsessional writers a few months ago. (Still hoping they publish it, but at least I got to cash the check.) One writes about what one knows, I guess.

Anyway, plan now is to get in here and say more, more often.