NotBlogging: NotWriting has never been easier
Hello, and welcome to the thirty-third installment of NotWriting.com, an open journal on how one writer spends his time when he really should be writing.
Or should I say a weblog or blog on how one writer spends his time when he really should be writing?
Whatever. The key is, one of my best friends, Jason Sadofsky, gently helped me to see the writing on the wall——by hurling a brick through my living room window with a note attached to it. In the note, he explained that doing my notwriting entries as a "blog" would (a) drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to produce them and (b) get me read by more people. Oh, he also set it up for FREE, so there's that. Thanks again, Jay. And my five billion readers thank you, too.
NotWriting began two and a half years ago when I asked a seemingly innocent question: "What would happen if a writer, unable to write, got the idea to write about the things he does when he really should be writing?"
Since then, I've put up 32 answers to that question——some serious, some humorous, some plain ridiculous. I've braved the quagmires of writer's block and procrastination and have witnessed the phenomenal lengths a writer's mind (and sometimes his body) will go to just to avoid writing.
Hopefully with this new toy——er, I mean tool——I'll be able to put up even more scintillating commentary more often.
But, like my grandfather used to say when I was reciting my Christmas list: Don't count on it.
Hope to see y'all around.