Blogging Commitments
Yes, I’m blogging about blogging, shut up.
Somewhere in the distant past I began this whole “online writing” jaunt as a way to vent my frustration about one topic or the next. By distant past, I of course mean about a year ago. The more recent past on the other hand has seen my blog prosper, my traffic increase, and my ego shoot up through the roof like a heroin addict. It’s all very nice until your balls punch you in the face and you realise you have actual work to do, not unlike every other human being on the planet excluding former members like Michael Jackson.
The fact of the matter is that blogging can become a bloody chore, and soon enough not only are you no longer relevant just out of the sheer monotony of your posts, but you come away feeling like the entirety of your life resents you every time you sit down to write something. It’s not long before chairs are less comfortable, your eyes are bloodshot just out of principle, and your masturbatory habits have become extinct — which would ordinarily happen thanks to a girlfriend, if only you could get away from the bloody stupid keyboard long enough to fuck her.
Blogging should not be, and is not a chore. Not unless you’re being paid to do it, and even then you might be a complete fuckwit like that worthless waste of skin who went on about the fall of society due to Mass Effect making all our masses erect over the silhouette of an alien bum. I won’t bother to link him here because not only has everyone and their ferret read the damn thing, but it’s immoral to give him any more traffic.
As such I’ve decided upon something. I’m going to blog whenever the fuck I feel like it. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not blaming anyone for my self-induced idea of commitment. I like blogging and I got addicted to it. This rant is largely at myself, a way of chastising my own stupidity in an open forum where I’ll feel ashamed and actually have a visual reminder of it. For about a week.
Take that you blogging-addicted bastard.
That’s all really, I’m done now.
Edit: Thanks to that incorrigible grammar whore of a nazi bettynoir I’ve now had to go back into this damned thing and correct myself. But you DID miss where I left out a “be” in “Blogging should not be, and is not a chore.” You’re slipping woman. 
And thanks for that.
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Martin said,
February 11, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
This post only serves to remind me why you’re one of my favourite bloggers, seriously. I mean, it takes some talent to turn vitriolic meta-blog ranting of “I don’t update any more, grr” around into a post that almost made me fall off my chair and cough up blood with laughter so hell yeah, blog whenever you feel like it and anyone who has to any sense will come back to read it as and when.
At the end of the day, blogging IS supposed to be fun and personal too, so changes in posting frequency and content isn’t just a result of your thoughts and attitudes – it’s to be expected. I’ve cut down a bit recently myself to allow for real life commitments, and to avoid burnout and Hiatus Disease…sometimes I post two days in a row, sometimes only twice a week; it’s my blog and it works around my life (such as it is).
Good luck with that real life crap, I guess.
IcyStorm said,
February 11, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
Eh, it’s your blog. It’s not like you have to post daily or something. Take your time since quality is greater than quantity (unlike me, who posts crap every day because I enjoy posting).
wildarmsheero said,
February 11, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
I blog whenever I feel like it, that just happens to be almost daily.
bettynoire said,
February 11, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
Yeah, just because I am incredibly anal and this is a huge pet peeve of mine… I think you meant “immoral.”
The word amoral means “not related to morality” or “outside of morality,” which essentially makes that sentence “this completely-not-related-to-morality-act is… not related to morality.” Which just… doesn’t make sense. Immoral = adhering to the bad side of the moral compass. I’m guessing what you meant to say is “This act… is bad.” in which case “immoral” is the word to use.
Yeah, here ends my grammar troll comment.
I actually do enjoy your blog btw, I just hurt internally from how… not accurate that was. >.
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Hidoshi said,
February 12, 2008 @ 4:00 am
>>Martin
I hate the word “Meta” by the way. I think it’s about as sickeningly annoying as the words “paradigm” or “synergy” coming out of a businessperson. Slap yourself in the taint with some rubbing alcohol since I’m not there to do it.
But in all honesty, thanks. I’m glad I can be of some humorous entertainment. ^^
>>IcyStorm, wildarmsheero
Take up smoking, it’s probably less hazardous to your health. And if you already smoke, do it while blogging, and more often.
>>bettnoire
I’m glad, and I’ve more or less gotten used to the fact you enjoy being volatile. It’s actually rather charming. And no, I’m not hitting on you.
Also, I fixed the errors, as you’ll no doubt see above. EAT IT.
DrmChsr0 said,
February 12, 2008 @ 4:23 am
Dude, you really should take a break once in a while.
Can get rather depressing out there on the Internets yanno.
bettynoire said,
February 12, 2008 @ 5:55 am
Pardon my lack of caring about simple typo errors. :-p They are too trivial to be worthy of my attention. Unless the typo is a misspelling of my name. There’s an ‘e’ at the end, you bastard! I take this as a slight on my vitriolic nature! YURUSENAI.
I’m glad you understand my spaz attacks of rage are really just my way of saying “I love you” to the community. :-p Teehee~
Martin said,
February 12, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
@Hidoshi: I’m not a big fan of the term ‘metablogging’ either, but used it here for convenience. Orion and Guff came up with a better alternative: ‘blogsturbation’. That sounds much better (and gives you a killer score in Scrabble, not to mention some funny looks).
@bettynoire: you make it sound like you’re the blogosphere’s resident tsundere. Kudos.
bettynoire said,
February 13, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
@Matrin: Wouldn’t the “rage being a sign of love” be yandere? I feel like the two can be awfully close at times. /tangent moment.