Wednesday 6 August 2014

Blaugust 6, 2014 - Are You Looking For A Challenge??? (Yes)

Today my mind is fairly blank, which is nice in a way, and I found myself re-hashing old ground in my first draft. It has me a touch worried about my word-count falling a little behind, and so I am blatantly padding it out, but I figure all is fair in love and blaug.

Participating in Blaugust has been an interesting experience so far. I came into it with no firm plans, just a commitment to write a certain amount with a certain frequency. Reading the content my fellow Blaugusters have produced has been interesting, entertaining, informative, and inspiring. My content, however, has this certain proclivity toward introspection.

I suspect this is because I'm writing what I feel like writing. I haven't allowed myself any real forum for long-form self-expression before, and I am getting a certain catharsis from the process. You know, pretty much what everyone who has written a diary ever has experienced.

I beg your continued indulgence, and hope that the interludes with proper interesting, informative content make up for the days when I just babble about whatever is on my mind. Perhaps I will challenge myself with a theme for week two? Perhaps you, dear reader, could challenge me with such?

7 comments:

  1. Daily comparisons, metaphorical connections, and the like, between board games and various native plants?
    Personally, I've been liking the introspection.

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  2. Maybe you could write us all a story on the theme of debt and tardiness.

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    1. Appropriate.

      (For everyone else, I have owed Aaron a story for over a year, probably more like two)

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    2. I just checked: a little over four years.

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  3. An in depth and detailed description of your favourite native flower, sufficient that readers can produce a botanist sketch from

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  4. Once a week you must create a piece of poetry but each week's piece should conform to a different form (eg. Sonnet, haiku)

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  5. Talk about what you like. What games/plants/places you like kinda stuff
    I like the comparisons idea too!
    Personal experiences with these things~?

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