My good friend Statia has a post about reading her past blog posts. Recently I have done the same thing on my own site. I have gone back and, to be brutally frank, Do you know him, Brutally Frank? BF, we used to call him?...wait what was I talking about?? Oh yeah, old blog posts. I read some of my old stuff and it cracks me way up. Some really funny stuff, in my not-so-humble opinion. And then I get all fired up to do it again. Easy, right? Right. So I sit there with keyboard in hand and I say to myself
“Buzz, write something funny.”
*blink*
“Go ahead, Buzzy boy. Whip out a little wit. Dazzle them!”
*whistles and looks around aimlessly*
“Oh geez, man. Have you lost it? Are you out of funny?”
*Ummmm.....A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says....*
“Oh for the love of Peter, Paul and Mary! You KNOW that’s not what I’m talking about. Now write something funny!”
So yeah, I need to write something funny. That’s my goal. I will work on it. Hopefully when I write it I won’t have to explain that THAT was the funny. Hopefully you’ll just know it when you read it.
Stay tuned.
Buzz it]
I’ll know it.
Go ahead, whip it out… oh wait. What were we talking about again?
I had sort of the same thing happen recently. I was reading through some old blog posts and I was quite impressed with the writing. Not funny like you, but not as boring as I usually imagined my writing to be. Sadly I think I have been on a real boring streak for a long time. Or not. I can’t judge my writing anymore.
Amy (previously of PsychoBabble) here. I just did that myself. The whole re-reading thing. It’s tough when that blog doesn’t exist anymore, but thanks to the Wayback Machine I was able to traipse through the past. Damn, near the end there, my writing was actually good. And I managed funny more than a few times.
Now? Eh.
I think it’s a lack of time thing. I feel as though I should say something but don’t really take the time to think about it so I jot something down just to keep the damn blog active.
The effort (or lack of it) shows. I’m trying to figure out how to get back to where I was as far as writing quality.
I think it’s like the Nike commercials say, Just Do It. Well, not IT. I mean, not on the blog. I still want to do IT....oh nevermind.