Blog On The Motorway

Ok, I admit it. I bit off more than I could chew. I had too much on my plate. I must now eat humble pie. Choke on my words. Hang on, enough with the food metaphors.  I must be hungry. I’m always hungry, but that’s the price you pay for being on a diet. But I digress.  Today I have had to call time on one of the many many things that I have taken on.  I decided to drop out of my Open University course.

Yep, I made it to one and a half modules, although in real terms that is pretty much a full year and a half.  The reasons are multiple, but in the end it comes down to a lack of resources.  Not enough time, not enough energy, not enough willpower, and crucially, not enough interest.  When I started the course the idea was to train for a career in IT, but strangely enough it seems as though a computing degree is not really what you want to be doing.  At no point in my course would I ever learn how to build a PC, or make one work better.  I can get this information a lot easier and more cheaply than I was from the OU. Also, when I started, the main thrust was to learn web design, but the truth is that I have now launched three websites, albeit with help, but I realised it’s the running and maintaining of websites that interests me, not their design.  There are places like WordPress that take all the pain out of it, and good friends and people I have met on Twitter who can do the rest.

And having launched Demon Pigeon, Year of Health, here, and eventually BOTM, it’s there that I feel I need to focus my energies. I am not posting enough to any of these sites, and a lot of that is down to the fact that I have spent a lot of time thinking that there is a load of Uni work to be done, and if I am going to sit at the computer then it’s that which should get my attention.  And so I avoid the computer altogether, doing neither.

Truth be told I now feel like a weight has been lifted from my back, and that I am now free to blog, in its many guises.  But in order to justify this to myself, I’m going to make a promise. A grand total of 8 posts a week. For Demon Pigeon (where at the very least I have other people to pick up the slack) three here, and three for YOH.  I can only justify this decision if I am honestly going to knuckle down more.  I’ve already spoken to Ellen about setting aside an hour a night.  I want to be better at this, I want my prose to reach the heights of the wonderful bloggers whose work pulls me in every single day.  The only way I can see to do that is to write.  Today I read a great post by Jay over at Do Some Damage about how writers make the time to write, no matter what. I’ve been all too guilty of not doing this. I must do better, and now I don’t have any excuses for not doing so.