The problem with daily blogging...

[matt_doyle]

...is that I feel obliged to post whether or not I feel as though i have anything to say to anyone.  But that's not really a bug, it's a feature -- that is, I knew I would feel that way, and expected the difficulty, and it was intentional.  Because although I am frequently bored, I do firmly believe that boredom is an illusion created by an insufficiently creative mind.  Posting every day forces me to really look at what's happening in the world around me and inside my head, and explore what interests me enough  to talk about -- which hopefully carries over into fiction, where with writer's block I can recast my thoughts and find the words I need to keep working.  Of course, there are always going to be stumbling blocks... I mean, do you really think I'd be making this post about feeling obligated to post and the illusion of having nothing interesting to say if it wasn't a recursive phenomenon?  Today I do feel obligated to post and feel like I have nothing interesting to say -- but as I examine what's going on in my head, that's got to be a worthwhile topic to explore, at least this once.