Comments on: Blogging frustration http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/2006/12/22/blogging-frustration/ teaching, learning and change Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: EdVentures in Technology » Top Ten of 2006 - These are a few of my favorites posts! http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/2006/12/22/blogging-frustration/comment-page-1/#comment-3503 EdVentures in Technology » Top Ten of 2006 - These are a few of my favorites posts! Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:15:43 +0000 http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/2006/12/22/blogging-frustration/#comment-3503 [...] Blogging frustration [...] [...] Blogging frustration [...]

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/2006/12/22/blogging-frustration/comment-page-1/#comment-3360 Stephen Downes Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:14:03 +0000 http://www.whitemountaintech.net/wordpress/2006/12/22/blogging-frustration/#comment-3360 It's your blog, you should blog as often or as infrequently as you like, and not worry about what other people say. It's not like there is a shortage of material on the web. That said, a couple pieces of advice for overcoming writer's block. First, you fear your posts are too simplistic. Here's an insight: everyone feels that way. I have my own self-doubts, Will Richardson struggles with his. It is necessary to take an attitude something like, "It's good enough because it's me." The fact is, your thoughts are no more or less simple than anyone else's. What varies is the steadfastness in communicating them. First, it's OK to simply feel. Your writing doesn't have to have a point. You don;t need to reach some vital conclusion. It's OK to simply describe, to say what you perceived. Because 'reason', properly so-called, typically doesn't take place in the cogitation, it takes place in the perception. To recognize something as something is to reason. Record your thoughts. The depth and complexity will follow. It’s your blog, you should blog as often or as infrequently as you like, and not worry about what other people say. It’s not like there is a shortage of material on the web.

That said, a couple pieces of advice for overcoming writer’s block.

First, you fear your posts are too simplistic. Here’s an insight: everyone feels that way. I have my own self-doubts, Will Richardson struggles with his. It is necessary to take an attitude something like, “It’s good enough because it’s me.” The fact is, your thoughts are no more or less simple than anyone else’s. What varies is the steadfastness in communicating them.

First, it’s OK to simply feel. Your writing doesn’t have to have a point. You don;t need to reach some vital conclusion. It’s OK to simply describe, to say what you perceived. Because ‘reason’, properly so-called, typically doesn’t take place in the cogitation, it takes place in the perception. To recognize something as something is to reason. Record your thoughts. The depth and complexity will follow.

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