this is a new post, not one of those new posts where new people have forgotten to add a title
This is a new post. Unlike my last few posts, which were not entirely new. They were old posts I had already published here a year ago, but edited and then re-published during the last two weeks, as if they were new ones.
Except the haiku one (575 verse - syllables). That was new, but it was a mental retreading of posts I had done versions of before on previous blogs.
It was me, flailing around to try re-introducing things I had done – and enjoyed doing – on previous blogs, in order to jolt my brain out of the depressive rut (and unable to grab onto any writing muse) it had been wallowing about in.
A depressive rut is not uncommon. In fact I've probably written about it on here before somewhere – but I also may have deleted that post again during another similar crisis of blogging confidence.
The depressive mental rut is also often the first of a round of symptoms involved in a descent into a MS physical rut.
(Edit to update: I did write it and it's still there blogging wobbling)
Anyway, writing the haiku post didn't do the job of pulling me out of the rut, so I posted two more edited older pieces, and then turned to the other standard facing-myself avoidance techniques.
Firstly, consider throwing the whole blog away and start again, perhaps even on another platform and with a new name. Result – spend a week looking at different blogging platforms, playing about with layouts, exploring the feature differences and having thoughts about names.
And decide nothing.
And secondly, while still thinking about platforms, start tweaking and fussing with the theme and appearance of the one on the current blog platform, i.e. this one.
Finally, my brain seems to have woken up enough to be able to write something completely new, and you are reading it. Although it's about something which is not completely new.
Next, I have to work on writing something actually new. Which, this being where I started spiralling down into the rut in the first place, may result in another couple of weeks of re-publishing edited old posts again.
Or I may finally be able to pull up the mental anchor that I think is holding me back from sharing too much online. To do that, I may have to write about what I think that is.
Anyway, in the meantime, I hope you enjoyed the new font. Unless you are reading in an RSS reader, in which case you're not even getting that, so you probably haven't enjoyed any of it.
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