25th of January, 17:11, Witte de With Straat
More than a year ago I set myself the challenge of blogging everyday for a year. I wanted to see what would happen, wanted to see how ideas develop, wanted to know what it was like writing to a strict deadline. And, of course, I wanted to feel the anxiety – feel it and face it – that comes along with publicly exposing yourself. Contrary to the obvious, I consider myself a private person; I agonised over what I should post. I often got it wrong.
Now it’s a new time for me, a new year, and the work I am engaged in is more time consuming, and is certainly not, not least because blogs leach creative juices, amiable to regular self-publication. I’ve enjoyed this deep study of mine, would even recommend it. But, like we say in England, enough is sometimes enough.
Enough.
2 Comments
Thanks for sharing some of your ideas, opinions, and creative outbursts with us in 2009. You have inspired but also entertained me with your witty pieces of writing. No doubt you’ll keep on writing, so… toitoitoi!
Heide
Thanks Heide, I am glad you enjoyed it.
Of course I will keep writing. This blog – you will notice you can’t read back any old posts – was just one outlet. Now I am working on larger pieces.
I read this yesterday, and I think it’s good advice for everyone who is trying to improve themselves and the world around them.
A fellow I have never heard of, David Mamet, said this. It’s a call to arms, a call to risks, and a call to your own faith. Go for it, forgive yourself for your mistakes, and don’t stop thinking for yourself – for that’s what the industrial model asks of us.