Yes it does.

It does when we are sick or have writer’s block, blogging sucks. It’s like mental constipation. You know you gotta but you just can’t. I thought after fixing everything in this new domain, I would have dozens of things to write. Honestly, it looks like I am back to square one. Those plugins and themes out there are making me crazy. It’s been sleepless nights reading codes but even if I can’t understand these codes all about, I still read. Tried. Deleted. And trying again. It’s more fun than writing these days.How true that when you have your own host, the norms is that, you entirely want 80% of your precious time to try themes, plugins, style and architecture of your blog until you burnt out thinking, have I activated the whole widgets on the sidebars? Of course designs isn’t always everything.

I remember the times when I said that I blog because I want to practice my writing and not because I care too much with my sidebars, so whocares what my template looks like? Perhaps you’ve heard that “content is a king”. I believe so, yes. I categorized this blog as too personal – and it isn’t easy to write personal stuff after all. Even if you leave the personal stuff out, do you ever ask yourself if you have focused on a topic? It seems easy to point a blue ink and start writing, say things we want, but did we ever ask what our blog really all about? Lack of focus sometimes confuses readers. Even yourself.

I realized that blogging is about being passionate too. Picking a topic that you’re not passionate about is a mistake for two reasons. First, you cheat your readers. Second, you cheat yourself. Don’t deny yourself a topic you enjoy. If nothing comes to mind, think through it again. Or maybe you shouldn’t be blogging. Passion for a topic motivates you to give your best, and leads to successful blogs. Blogging is all about writing. I know that. If you are not a good writer, that’s fine. I guess as we blog, we’ll improve over time. But we MUST enjoy it. Seriously.

My problem is, my thoughts are blank these days. I feel the need of motivation and passion back to see it through. I know it’s too early to give up. First, my writing needs improvement. Although I hear, fairly frequently, how easy blogging is for me and I believe anyone can do it. I was browsing my old blog quite a number of times lately and found quite a number of posts that I feel so much prouder. I asked myself, “How the hell did I do that?” “Where did I get those ideas?”

I recalled a few times back at work when I was doing my training, I have instructed one of my staff to follow what I tell them to do. One had asked me on how to improve his English. My reply was simply, “just talk to me in English”. I mean, I am a pro in my own English. Maybe thats why when I speak, it is clear to me. I understand all the words I say but it’s not always easy to get the detail to flow as nice as I would like them to. But then again it’s not hard for me to interact with people who also understand English. So then he asked, “how come you can understand cantonese?” I am not hundred percent sure why, but I remember I started with the basic. I would write down a few words in an index card and repeat it several times until the words comes out easily. Of course, I asked what the word means.

I make mistakes. Sure. Why afraid to make mistakes? I learnt that making mistakes is human and that even people who speak fluent English make mistakes. But of course, reading a variety of materials such as headline news, editorials, magazines, and even a good blog does improve our English. Sometimes I would write down and look up words that I don’t know.

Then I said, “you should use Wordpress and start blogging”. And I laughed.

So here is the thing, I have two challenges for you.

1. Tell me what you think this blog is about
2. Ask your audience what they think your blog is about

Is this some kind of a me-me? Exactly.

Album: Joni Mitchell – Hits | Song: Help Me
Artist: Joni Mitchell – Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or painting, created the artwork for each of her albums and has described herself as a “painter derailed by circumstance.” A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell has stopped recording over the last several years. Read More.

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