Ian's Messy Desk

Generating blog content, day after day, week in and week out, can sometimes dry up the creative juices. If you are strongly committed to your blogging or your blog has become your livelihood, “blockers block” can be daunting. Darren Rowse has come up with 20+ short tips which he is going to share over the coming week as a series: Battling Bloggers Block.

The first three tips are up:

1. Change your Blogging Environment
2. Keep an idea Journal
3. Free Writing - Just Write

And, if you don’t find the tips helpful, you can always turn the subject into a tongue twister and practice your diction, “big bald blocked bloggers battling blogger’s block.”

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Lots of Moleskine art at My Moleskine. (Japanese site)

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(or analog if you’re American)

I have previously posted of my pleasure in pen and paper. Mike Rohde and Armand Frasco are collaborating on a new blog—Journalisimo—dedicated to that very subject. From their manifesto:

This weblog is an attempt to invite a return to analog. Many of us live very digital lives. We push pixels around screens. Our lives are stored as bits on shiny hard drives. Our words and images can be published online, available moments later, all around the world. But this digital life can often seem very shallow.

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With a paper journal it was easy to write. That's pretty much all you could do. Sketch a little, doodle a little, but mostly write. As long as you carried it with you, you got some writing done.

Not so with the electronic version; too many distractions. I can update my bankbook, read a couple of news articles -or a whole book-, or play a couple of rounds of Bejeweled.

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