12.17.06
Stranger than Fiction
“Writer’s block” can happen to anybody. Sitting at home wondering what channel you should be watching? Can’t commit to just one show? Feeling uninspired? Writer’s block.
Sitting at the office wondering when to take that coveted 15-minute break? Pre or post-lunch? Writer’s block.
About to start that amazing Christmas card — with a snowman, a sleigh and a gnome on the front — that will absolve you of all friendship related guilt from 2006 but can’t find anything to say? Writer’s block.
Yeah, it’s a serious problem.
For me, the key is to just get started doing something; be it writing, watching, breaking, or um, friendship resolving. Once you take that plunge into doing, the creative juices start flowing and I find that I can’t stop the task at hand.
Of course, you could combat traditional writer’s block by starting a blog, like Ooi Yang-May did, but don’t be afraid to use a blog to leap over any “writer’s block” in your life. You can prove to your significant other that you really did think about taking out the trash and doing the dishes, even if you didn’t actually do it…yet. “Check the time stamp honey!”
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe said,
December 18, 2006 at 1:41 pm
I’ve renewed your book The Rough Guide to Blogging (2006) twice from our local Island public library and soon I have to give it back. I’m still not finished checking out the sites you recommend and trying to put into practice some of your hints.
I hope it becomes an annual series!
When I first began blogging on September 10, 2006 I called my blog A Writer’s Block Blogged.’ My first entry was an entire paragraph cut-and-pasted from a site I liked with a photo I took. I had added the original reference but not as complete as I began to later on as I learned more about how connected we can be very quickly. I was used to being part of the deep internet, where most web pages inhabited quiet, even silent zones with few visits. With the powerful connectivity of related Web 2.0 services I am in caught in cyberdelirium at the potential. I am also more aware of the Creative Commons.
Ethical dilemma for the blogosphere author/reader concerned about the Creative Commons:
Case1: I found a site I really liked, wanted to know more about one section, typed the entire phrase into Google and found the entire list of handy tips on another site predated by two years. I checked back and there was no reference. I really liked the site and wanted to add it to my blogroll, how do I respond?
Case 2: I found a Digg animation-clip a friend had promoted. After viewing the amazing animation and digging it I found that the attribution is questioned by another animator whose site is on the deep Internet, pay-per-use.
I unintentionally either promoted or almost promoted sites that were misusing intellectual and/or creative property by not providing attribution and/or permissions. As a serious teacher, learner and researcher establishing legitimate attributions is pivotal. We all constantly use the idea’s of others by dipping into communal memories and archives. Hiding the source does not make us look more creative or intelligent in the long run but it can provide some creative, social or intellectual capital in the short-run particularly on the Internet. Do you have any ideas of how to navigate these new ethical dilemmas on the blurred edges of the cyberworld.
Thanks again for a great Guide.
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