Repetition
Oops.
I think I’m going slightly mentalissimo.
See this post I wrote t’other day? Wishlist? You read it? You had better farking read it. Ten push-ups if you haven’t. Anyway. Seems I’ve repeated myself a bit. Cos I wrote this post – Want – back in January. And they’re too farking similar.
Not the content. Obvs that’s different. I was not the same person back in January. My list of wishes was a rather more wistful affair. And it did not contain cheese, which is outrageous. But the idea is the same: all I did, in both posts, is write a list of wants. Something initially so simple, yet to my fuddled brain I can’t help but berate myself for repeating the posts, and NOT BEING ORIGINAL.
I mean, fucksake. Who wants to read the same old crap again and again? Next thing you know, I’ll post MORE naked photos of myself. I’ll write about how disgusting periods are AGAIN. I’ll recount something funny that Moo did, or recall an overheard conversation, or just post photos of bizarro pictures from colouring books. And y’all indulge me, and I’ll think I’m great, until it all happens again and AGAIN and before you realise, I’m just writing the same old shit EVERY SINGLE FARKING DAY.
I started out writing this blog under the auspicious heading of ‘parent blogger’, though I didn’t claim to offer tips and handy hints on parenting. I haven’t got a farking clue what I’m doing to Moo, so I’d never presume to impose my haphazard ideas of motherhood on anyone else. I kinda just tell you what happens and hope y’all go along with it. Writing about parenting seems, dunno, a bit false of me. So I don’t.
The funny stuff gets recorded cos it’s funny, and makes me LOLZ, and I want to share it. That sort of thing happens often-ish. But sometimes, forcing the funny just doesn’t work either. I’m not in a humorous mood right now. It’ll come back, I’m sure, while in the meantime? What, more lists? Jeezus.
Blog posts that are lists – for me – are lazy. Brilliant, but lazy. I do a list post when I haven’t got a farking clue what else to write about. Just so happens that Bastards is my most viewed and commented on post to date, and THAT’S an epic list. But man alive, I wrote that in, like, two minutes. Lazy. And since then I’ve been tempted to write similar. Only called Cunts. Or Fuck-Donkeys. Or Total Arseholes. Maybe one day.
I don’t know what to write. If I’m running out of ideas, I don’t know how to generate more. Seems I’m damned if I write about the personal stuff, but that’s all I’ve got going on right now. I have the impetus and the urge to vent and to write, but not the platform nor the audience for the finished product.
Fark me this is getting technical.
Look, I’m struggling. I don’t want my blog to die. I love it too much. What can I write about?
Ummm….Yeah, umm, I’m drawing a blank here.
I say keep doing what you’re doing cause it’s pretty awesome.
Yes ma’am. I’ll try.
Have you tackled toe-jam yet? I think that you may have done crusty feet and the picking of…
Yes, I cannot write about feet without boaking a bit. So toe jam is a no jam. If you’ll pardon the shite rhyme.
There are so many blogs and posts around, I don’t think so many people thought ‘jeeze, MoVo, you’re repeating yourself…’
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I’ve got quite the same going on right now. If I don’t watch out, i’ll end up writing about dancing and clothes only. I don’t think my male followers will be pleased with that.
So, if I even had great ideas to write about, I wouldn’t tell you, because I need them myself
Damn you, Belgium! I will sneak into your brain and sneakily sneak away your ideas. Dancing and clothes, eh? Hmm, maybe there’s something in that
Write about what ever you want. Yes you may have to be a little sensitive if people you’re writing about may get hurt if they read it, but it is your blog. Ultimately people choose to read it. You could also write these blogs and post them at a later date when feelings won’t be as raw. In the mean time see if you can gain additional inspiration from reading other people’s work x
Good plan. I’m nowhere near as up to date as I’d like to be on my blog reader. I could have a read around and then STEAL SOMEONE ELSE’S IDEA! (no, that’s bad) (I might do it though) (I won’t) (maybe) x
Well, if you repeat yourself I can’t say I’d even notice. I can be amazed by the end of a film I watched only the week before, such is my dodgy memory.
Anyways, even if the subject is the same I’m sure the post won’t be. Unless you start repeating the same jokes That would be embarrassing. But we’ll forgive you and pretend we haven’t noticed because we want you to keep writing, innit
Oh I do that too, I can re-read a book or re-watch a film and the end will still surprise me!
Aha! You see? So I might have been repeating myself ALL THIS TIME and you are just humouring me… pah. You see? I might be just repeating myself and you are all just humouring me. Dammit. You see? I might just be… I could go on. I won’t.
January’s list and the other day’s list are two different things. Not the same. You’re not repeating yourself. It’s boomarking time, stuff, and inbetween there’s been some stuff going on which shapes one, and the other, and makes both different. If you get my shnoofter.
If you wrote a post about having a shit on Tuesday and another on Thursday it would be different. Both would be funny, witty, clever and people would love them. Write what you want. This is your blog innit, but just take care with some subjects, people, and their fragile hearts. Put it in code or something. Or not. I dunno.
Besides, Some people make a living out of writing the same old shit. Jeffrey Archer. Cartland. Andy McNab, God, with Old Teste and New Teste. The fucking phone book is the same each year.
People would really love a post about me having a shit? Really? Really truly? Jeezus. You lot are sick.
Okay, I’ve read them both, the same(ish), but seven months appear. I wouldn’t sweat it. If I could be blogging for several months or more, post quality and regularly, and only repeated myself once… I’d call that a success.
Good point well made. Think I’m just having a writerly moment. One of them block things. S’all fun and games.
When I get in a slump I read other blogs. Except I just read yours because it’s fun
I don’t know – sometimes that helps me think about other topics I couldn’t come up with on my own – even if it’s completely irrelevant to their blog post!
Yes, that’s a good point – I guess we find inspiration all over the place. I need to do some more blog reading. I am BAD on that score. Thank you!
Hi,
Just keep on doing what you’re doing. As long as you’re living, you’ll never run out of things to write about. Life is full of cycles and repetition and yet it’s always somehow different. Moo is growing and changing every day.
I just love reading about the “Everyday Life and Thoughts” of Bloggers. Yes, some of it is the same and that’s good, because we relate to it, but then the small and big differences are interesting too.
I’d love to read about your acting and how you got into it, what are your reheasals and performances like? (I’m a nosy git, innit?!
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love
Claire
x
Acting, eh? OK cool, I’ll see if I can write something up on that soon. I too like the minutiae of people’s lives, just never convinced anyone would want to read mine! Thanks m’love x
you could write about doing the same things over and over and over…………….oh wait?!
MY NEXT POST WILL BE ABOUT REPEATING MYSELF.