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Guest Blogger: Christine Price
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

I Hate Blogging

First, allow me to thank and apologize to my gracious house Delilah for hosting my ramblings because I’m really, really bad at blogging. Like, seriously awful. Every time I sit down to blog about something, I either allow myself to get distracted or struggle to think of a topic. There are a lot of incredibly talented bloggers out there who are able to creatively spin any subject matter into pure internet gold. Not me. When I am actually able to come up with a post, I generally end up rambling about nothing and end with an awkwardly-placed “well, what do you think?”

Case in point, the potential subjects for this particular blog post were:

  • My Cat Is Sitting On My Keyboard.
  • I Just Reorganized My MP3s!
  • Where Did That Stain On My Wall Come From?
  • Minesweeper Marathons Are Incredibly Fulfilling.
  • Masterchef Australia Is The Best Show Ever.
  • I’m Going To Make Cookies To Help Me Decide On A Blog Subject. Oh, Crap, I’m Out of Flour. Well, Good Thing I Needed To Go Grocery Shopping Anyway. I’ll Just Think Up My Blog Post Later.
  • The Internet Is Distracting (And Also For Porn).

I’ll sort of sit, frozen at my keyboard, struggling to find something to say until finally conceding defeat and tabbing over to Firefox to lose ungodly amounts of time on TVTropes.

It seems odd to me that this has become such an issue. I love writing. And generally I have an opinion about everything. The two should go hand in hand. It’s a formula for a successful blog (or nearly successful, since I think you actually need to be talented to have a successful blog, but don’t quote me on that). I think I put myself under too much pressure to be clever and/or insightful and end up somewhere in the confused middle where most people start banging their heads against their desks and beg for the pain to stop. I don’t have this problem with fiction (well, except for the Minesweeper thing, because marathoning back-to-back advanced games is actually pretty fulfilling). Take my new release, Half Blind. The first draft was written in less than a month, because once an idea grabs me I focus on it to the exclusion of all other things. But blog posts in general? Well… let’s just say there’s a reason I don’t have a ‘blog’ section on my website. People who enjoy watching train wrecks just have to get their jollies elsewhere.

There’s all sorts of fretful things besides subject to consider when writing a blog. How long should it be? Should I include a giveaway? Embedded links? Will anyone really appreciate it if I link it to a Youtube video of baby sloths? Google offers differing opinions.

This is where I’d usually try to come to a thoughtful conclusion, ask some rhetorical questions (see above) and request your opinion. I’m not going to do that this time (though your comments are certainly welcome) because I don’t think I’ve come to any stunning conclusions about blogging. Unless you’ve got a surefire way of coming up with stunningly witty subject matter. In which case, bottle it, ‘cause I’d buy it by the caseful.

(Oh, by the way, the answer to the sloth question is yes. Everyone appreciates baby sloths. Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1mAGQAw3Oc)

Half Blind is available for purchase now!

About the Author:

Christine Price lives with her family Edmonton, AB. Her fascination with the written word began at a young age with a one-page story titled “My Mother is a Werewolf” and took off from there. In her spare time, she enjoys unfortunate puns, good books, borderline decent wine and making contingency plans for a zombie apocalypse. (Believe it or not, this used to be an unusual pastime!)

Christine loves hearing from her readers and can be reached at priceiswrite@christinepricewrites.com via email or on the Web at www.christinepricewrites.com.

You can also follow her on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/CPriceIsWrite.
Sometimes, she’s interesting!

6 comments to “Guest Blogger: Christine Price”

  1. Nancy
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    · October 17th, 2012 at 11:15 am · Link

    😯 😆
    I would vote for topics three and seven on your list 🙂
    I’m sure baby animal anything would be cute as but lets face it cats doing crazy things are usually always a winner, so maybe this link would be good http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl7xr5rftc
    I actually think the topic you chose “I Hate Blogging” could be expanded to “Things I love”, “Things I Hate” & “Things that Tick Me Off!”, you could choose just one thing each time and talk about that.
    Great blog by the way 🙂



  2. Christine
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    · October 17th, 2012 at 1:54 pm · Link

    Hey Nancy,

    I will totally concede the cat thing. But mine go insane if they hear another cat in a 20′ radius around my house, including ones that only sound like they’re there because of my speakers.

    Thanks fo the feedback!!



  3. ELF
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    · October 17th, 2012 at 10:57 pm · Link

    Hmm…baby sloths…of all the things that I have randomly looked for, that is not very high on my list, lol. Thank you for sharing anyway…and what did your mother think about being called a werewolf?



  4. Stacy Wilson
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    · October 17th, 2012 at 11:20 pm · Link

    The internet is distracting… OOO!! Shiny!!! :p

    Thanks for this! Made me smile.

    Stacy Wilson

    dragn_lady at yahoo dot com



  5. Mary Preston
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    · October 18th, 2012 at 4:24 am · Link

    This was very funny.

    Now, lets get back to the stain on the wall!!



  6. Stacy Wilson
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    · October 18th, 2012 at 11:23 pm · Link

    I have to confess…lately, I log in to FB on my phone. In between times of playing gin rummy against the computer in my ‘droid. :p

    Stacy



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