Writing

As you may have noticed, I'm not doing a real good job of regular posting on this blog. Well, I do my "weekly" posts, but I'm not putting a whole lot of time into writing other, more interesting posts. Not that this is a grave matter - in fact, it is probably healthy. It means that I'm busy living my life and doing other things (read: work, wedding planning, etc...) rather than sitting around attached to the computer 24/7.

In reality, I am attached to the computer a lot of the time, but at work I am doing work, not blogging. In fact, I spend a lot of time at work doing technical writing in the form of newsletter articles, emails, and powerpoint presentations. I may not be the best technical writer in the world, but I am at least competent. Luckily, technical writing comes easily for me. I rarely have writers' bloc doing technical writing. All that I really have to do is find a logical way to organize and communicate information in a clear, coherent way. This, of course, comes easily to my very logical and analytical brain.

Unfortunately, focusing on technical writing so much seems to result in a lesser ability to writing interesting narrative prose in other venues, such as this blog. I sometimes have interesting stories to relate, but everything combined seems to result in few of them ever getting published. That being said, I also edit rather strongly, which takes the fun out of some of the stories. I'm not exactly making a huge effort to keep this blog highly anonymous, so I can't tell stories about work that could potentially be considered indiscreet in some way.

I also sometimes have other interesting topics I'd like to write about, but I don't usually have the time (or prioritize the time) to write something coherent. I have also been considering writing fiction again, but I'm afraid that whatever skill I may have had at some point is now gone in a sea of technical writing. Also, I know that I'd probably get one short story or chapter of a longer story done and never again post something related to that story.

So maybe someday in the far future, there will be more interesting things to read on this blog. For the time being, we will all have to be satisfied with regular topic posts and irregular boring diary-esque posts.