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An update on PostAWeek2011

I’m not entirely sure how many regular readers I have. Encouragingly, I’ve got a good few subscribers and seem to get the odd re-tweet. Therefore, if you’ve been here before and are not my mum, my fiancee, my mate Jeff or me, thanks for coming back.

Right or wrong, clever or stupid, I decided to participate in WordPress’s PostAWeek2011 challenge back in January. The premise for which is simple – write something every week and post it on your blog. Easy, yeah?

Originally, I had a crack at PostADay2011. If you imagine PostAWeek2011 being a kickabout in the local park, its more frequent sibling is akin to playing against the current Barcelona team. On your own. Naked. Tied to an old man.

It’s hard.

So, obviously, I gave up.

Posting something every week has actually turned out to be a little easier than I thought. The briefest of conversations, a second-long glance at a situation… even biscuits. Inspiration is literally everywhere.

For that reason, I recommend that you give this a go. It doesn’t matter how confident you are at writing, or if you’re speling is as bad as mine – trust me, you will feel better for letting it all out occasionally.

As WordPress say – express yourself. Start a blog. The world is a better place with more words.

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I’ve fallen off the wagon…

It was bound to happen. A post a day? Every day? Who am I kidding?

Ironically, I neglected to ‘post a day’ on the two days which should offer all the time in the world to do so – Saturday and Sunday.

I knew it would be a tall order, but at least managed to stick at it for ten solid posts (I actually started before the new year).

It wasn’t as though I was busy this weekend, either. No, I simply gorged myself on studio time, Call of Duty, dog walking and the devil’s own creation: crunchy chocolate clusters. Perhaps excluding the latter, these activities were calling far louder than blogging during the most precious of things: the weekend.

WordPress’ intentions are admirable; they want their users to express themselves as often as possible. They’ve built some fantastic tools which help make blogging a joy of unreserved ease and sophistication and they want people to use them. They thrive on content, whether it be words, pictures or passionate comment threads and the postaday and postaweek incentives no doubt struck a chord with many bloggers, like myself, who have simply let their website slip somewhat. I got excited. I wanted to take part. Imagine reaching 31/12/11 and being able to say I’d posted something every single day that year…

I love writing as it provides a convenient platform for me to air my views and opinions, without forcing them upon people and subsequently boring them to death. But this takes time. When you’ve got a full time job, a house, a fiancé, a dog, an addiction to Call of Duty and a love for making music, spare time is hard to come by – even at weekends.

Therefore I am admitting defeat and gracefully slipping down to the next tier: postaweek. Something that is far more achievable.

For any of you determined to do this daily, I wish you all the luck. I’m happy to report the visits to my pages have increased slightly and there is definitely a sense of pride in having a blog which is regularly active.

For any of you that haven’t started a blog yet, I encourage you to do so. You don’t have to be Shakespeare (you only have to read a few of my posts to realise that), but it can be a far better way of venting your frustrations and joy than boring your friends silly with cryptic Facbook status updates.

If anyone from WordPress is reading this, thanks for trying, but I’m afraid this blogger ain’t up to it. Yet.

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