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I avoid writing by writing

March 19th, 2006 by Bill

There are many ways by which I avoid writing and one of those is by writing. This means that while I write, I don’t write what I should be writing.

This may be the biggest downside of blogs. For all the good things about them, they make it easy to fritter your time away posting about whatever passes through your head rather than work on the writing you should be doing, or could be doing.

This post is a good example. I’ve a number of things I could be working on, but I’m doing this.

Also, as you can see, I’ve made changes to this blog’s look. Playing with headers and templates and stylesheets is another great way to waste time that probably could be better spent.

And it’s much more interesting and fun.

(And an aside … Thanks to rebecca, I came across this: About Morality. I’m really posting the link because it’s something I want to read through and I have to rush out now. I use my blog to help my memory, which needs a lot of help.)

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3 Responses to “I avoid writing by writing”

  1. on 19 Mar 2006 at 2:44 pm1 mernitman

    You’re preaching to a very large choir, I’m sure. As proof, I offer this sad example of the one thing lower than “blogging instead of Really Writing”: writing comments on other people’s blog posts.

  2. on 19 Mar 2006 at 6:26 pm2 sandra

    I second that.

  3. on 20 Mar 2006 at 12:23 am3 Bill

    It’s good to know I’m not alone.

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