So I Started a Newspaper

chrisjones — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:51:44 +0000

and one of the problems that has occasioned is that I’m writing about 20 pages of stuff per week already, and now I’m adding another 3-4,000 words to that. Folks, I can’t write that much. I love writing. I do it all the time. But I find that I’m getting burnt. Where I used to blog three or four times a week, now I’m down to once if I’m lucky. I used to write a lot in my journal, too, but now I almost never get to it. It’s as if there are only so many words available, and once I’ve used them up, that’s it.

Yesterday I spent most of the day at home, doing things I’ve been putting off and needed to work on. I made bread. I made loganberry-crabapple jam, which is about the tastiest stuff ever created by man, if I do say so myself. I made grape juice and apple juice and crabapple juice and crabapplesauce – also incredibly smooth and tasty (it looks like yogurt) – ground wheat and cracked wheat and sprouted wheat. I did a few mortgage things as well, just for spice and variety. It was a great day. I wrote less than 200 words for the first time in months.

I recognize that this is normal, that life goes in cycles, and that there’s nothing particularly wrong with not blogging. Several billion people get on just fine without doing it at all. Still, I realize that this blog is important to me, and like most important things, it requires time and sacrifice. So I will not be quitting or even phasing out this blog, just so you know, though shortly I’ll be breaking it into two pieces, a mortgage piece and an “everything else” piece. Watch for that.

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So I Started a Newspaper