Countering Bloggers Block
The end of August isn't a very auspicious time of the year for bloggers. I suppose so since none one of us made any postings in the last four days. Now that ought to encourage curiosity since there are 7 of us. How can so many people suffer writers' block at the same time? But personally, I haven't been blogging as passionately on my other blogs either. Maybe there is thingie that pushes us into another direction, after some time of constant updates. Working in groups isn't as simple as it seems. Even without disputes, there's something called aura that we need to mamage. I think we need to hire a geomancer on this. Everybody! surrender your time and date of birth to me before nightfall.
Nah... just kidding.
But considering the fact that we're strangers to one another, our sudden change of blogging 'flow' is not at all surprising. Do you realise, how long two friends take to be in communion? Yeah, something like that. Not just co-operation or black-and-white agreement, but people working in a team should get to know each other more closely. As in, become REAL friends?
But if its the lacking of ideas that we're suffering from, then let me just suggest some panadol for this situation.
1. Find something interesting in the newspaper and comment on it in this blog.
2. Try the new frappucinno mocciatto at the nearby mamak stall and write a review on it here. Maybe snap a picture or two of the abang pulling his teh tarik and turning some roti canais into flying saucers. But no renumeration for camera batteries.
3. Tailgate the next PM speech and quote him off, word by word. People like me have poor listening skills and would greatly appreciate the secondhand news.
4. Those living abroad should become insiders and report about the next Blair & Bush co. barricade. You know lah, Malaysia is at the other end of the world and news often turn stale before it reaches our shore. Even if it doesn't, the news might already be heavily condensed.
5. I think we need to hire some virtual reporters.
Blah... I ran out of ideas, so proves that I'm not a very creative person after all, and I sure don't know any better. So do you know any other hooks and crooks of blogging? Do give us a tip.
Comments
Alternatively, there's always this thing called 'NOT BLOGGING'. I heard it works sometimes. :)
Posted by: eyeris | August 22, 2005 05:42 PM
Write on whatever comes to mind, poetry, short stories, perhaps some rare news you'd like to share?
Posted by: yiliang | August 23, 2005 03:39 PM
There comes a time when one can only talk so much before one realizes that in order to be viable as an on-going concern, one needs to.....FEEL and THINK.
Posted by: Freddie Chong | August 29, 2005 08:28 AM