So, I set this blog up with a pretty impossible goal in mind, which was to try and write up 500 horror movie reviews in a year's time. Impossible is actually not the right word, but I knew it would be a challenge...mostly because I've always had issues with focus when it comes down to personal projects. So, while I've had jags here and there, it's pretty safe to say that my initial goal is not going to be made. However, here's where the cliche works in...because to all cliches there is a certain element of truth.
The cliche is this one: that along the way I discovered something...which is true. I tried to set the whole thing aside after my run of entries in April...just figured I wouldn't go back to it...though even then I knew I didn't want to send what I had worked on to data heaven either. So I kept it...and every once in a while I would watch something and think about writing an entry. It didn't really dawn on me until last night what was happening.
I was missing writing up entries.
Now, I'll be the first to grant that these little blurbs are not likely to be changing the world anytime soon, or that the writing in them is anything superior. But it's something I've found I've enjoyed doing, just here and there when I have the chance. I think I missed that joy in focusing too much on a certain number, and while I still admit that I need discipline in my writing, I've got to find a way of doing regular work without sucking out all the life involved in it.
This rambling is a long way of saying that I'll be doing more entries, though I'm not going to hit that 500 mark by Halloween, I'm almost positive. I'm actually not sure that's a bad thing if I keep up the writing...which is just what I plan to do.
Hope your summer is going well, I think mine is already off to a good start.
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