Reverb: Writing.

Today's prompt is about writing and what in your life prevents you from writing I think I have a fairly simple answer but none the less true.

More so than any other time in my life I've noticed that procrastination mixed with a little bit of apathy prevents me from writing 99% of the time. I enjoy writing and coming up with ideas but I have trouble sitting down to write them. I mean why should I write when I can watch the Top Gear: Polar Special for the 17th time. I'm constantly distracted by the internet among other things.

I'm trying to force myself to sit down everyday and write about something for at least 20 minutes a day. It doesn't have to make it onto my blog but I'd like it to. Often I'm not happy with what I write so I just scrap it. I don't save it to retool it and make it worthwhile to use in the future. I just throw it away.

I'm kind of inspired by the same philosophy Cortez had. When he reached the new world he burned his ships to motivate his men. I think if I throw away what I don't think is worthwhile I'll be motivated to write something worth someone's attention.

But seriously let's face it I'm a slacker.

The Dull Life.

I'm laying on the floor thinking right now. Well maybe not since I'm typing this but I am thinking sort of.

I'm thinking about how the traffic lights they are putting at the 4way stop is going to fuck up my commute. My commute is 5 minutes by car on a bad day and 15 minutes if I get breakfast made at the bakery. It is hard to believe soon I won't be living in the county just in another section of urban sprawl that has made its way to our place. Our barns will be replaced with "affordable" town houses and our orchard will be replaced by snot nose kids out to escape the suburbia they are forced to live in.

I'm thinking I need to get off my ass in gear and get this thing I call a life rolling. I keep getting asked why there are no ladies in my life? There is a simple answer and there is a long answer and neither of them are about me being gay (Sorry Shaynebow I like the ladies. You'll have to try someone else). And I'm not going to get into either.

I'm thinking of escaping to somewhere that isn't here. Travel was my first love and I've been bitten once again. Where I want to go is irrelevant and so is money. I just need a break from being me and focus on the road. My dream of travel writing/photography is still strong and last night I dreamt of making fake "Lonely Planet" business cards and seeing how much stuff I could do for free.

I'm thinking I just ran out of whiskey.

Is this it?

or "Under Construction."

I wrote something like this to post earlier, but had a brown out and lost everything.

I've been having trouble lately articulating my ideas for my personal website. Be it designing the concept I want to bring across or implementing something for the web I just can't get it right.  Granted some of my ideas are a little ambitious for my level of designing but I hope one day I will be able to make it work. Someone recommended I try squarespace till I become more comfortable with things and it gives me almost ultimate control over everything.

I'm trying to make some goals for myself when it comes to my writing. I know I won't be an everyday writer at least for a while but I do want to have something new several times a week. I want to write about music and the concerts I go to. Not reviewing it but about the experiences. I plan on writing about food and drink on occasion as I am a bit of a beer snob and enjoy good food. I'd like to start some travel writing even if it is just a day trip over to The Spit or months abroad. I enjoy reading travel writing quite a bit and it was actually one of the things that inspired me to go to Europe for two months.

I also plan on doing something with my photography. I was thinking of maybe doing a gallery/portfolio on here too. I'd also like to be able to throw a photo up when I've got nothing to say, but not to often.

Basically I don't know where my blog/website is going right now. Expect all sorts of changes over the next few months while I'm playing with designs until I do something I'm truly happy with. I know the direction I want to go and I know the direction I don't want to go. So I think that helps a little. Until then here is to ambition, indecision, and poor grammar.