I’ve been a bad blogger.
What’s more, this is a new blog for me, so I don’t have volumes of content to back me up through the rough times. I know that I should be posting more often than bi-monthly. I know that the only way to get readers to come back is to update frequently with informative, engaging content that inspires conversation.
So why haven’t I been blogging? I know that blogging takes time, one thing I can’t spare right now. In fact, I shouldn’t even be writing this.
My Honors College thesis is due in just a few days. The end is near. I can see the sun setting on this project, yet when I awake each morning, I feel nothing but fear and anxiety. There is so much still to do and so little time. Even when I finish, I know that the end product won’t properly showcase the time and effort I’ve put into this project during the last 8 months. Wow. I should probably keep that to myself and instead boast that I accomplished it all in 3 to evade any jeers. Do authors, novelists, and researchers feel this way, that despite whatever praise the final product receives, it’s an inadequate representation of the hours, months, or years that they’ve devoted to it?
Perhaps I’m selling myself short. I hope so.
Whatever the outcome, I’ll be glad when it’s over. And I’ll have lots of juicy blog topics, such as final thoughts after five years in a university journalism program (and why, for me, it was a better option than 4), new favorites among social media tools, and expectations and impressions of my first real agency internship, all delivered fresh on a less self-serving plate than described.
Stay tuned for June.
1 Comment
March 27, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Do all authors feel this way? Yes, I think to a greater or lesser extent, they do.
I remember my aunt stressing (many years ago) about her masters thesis: how it wasn’t good enough, wasn’t finished, and she was seriously running out of time… Then her professor told her “take this bit and tweak it a little so it stands on its own—that’s your thesis.” Then he said “take the rest, again make it stand on its own, and I’d strongly recommend submitting that as your doctorate thesis.”
Completely amazed by this, she’s now the first PhD in the family for quite some time!
You’ll get there in the end.