Sometimes, I sit down and open up my blog and just start typing. I don't necessarily know where I'm going with it, I just go and see where the words take me. It's not always the most effective means of blogging, but it's what works for me.
But today, I sat down and started at an empty page for a while, not knowing what words would come to mind... none did. It was so bad that I turned to the person beside me and asked, "what should I blog about today?"
That's honestly never happened to me before. Ever since my 9th grade homeschool curriculum made me write a full page every day about whatever topic I wanted, I've learned to come up with something to say. I always have words.
I know why it's different today, I have a lot on my mind (but not the kind of stuff one can blog about) and I'm getting into the part of the semester where things are really heating up. So I'm busy. But still, I should be able to magically come up with words out of thin air like I always do, right?
Well, 194 words in... I guess things could be going worse.
Writing is like anything else, there are just some days where you're not as good at it as usual. Even Derek Jeter goes 0-for-3 on the occasional Tuesday afternoon game. Peyton Manning throws three interceptions once in a blue moon. And LeBron James misses a buzzer beater every now and then (although for a while there, it seemed as nightly as David Letterman).
But guess what? They all show up to practice the next day; they start the game the next week; they push through and keep on working. Why is writing any different? It's not. So I think for a while. I try to come up with a topic. And sometimes, in the end, the very thing that kept me from typing that first word of the post is what I write the entire thing about.
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