The past few years -- even before COVID -- have been so horrible and traumatizing and so many people have suffered so much loss -- it's logjams all the way down, I think! I found this icon which seems scarily appropriate!
I'm glad to hear the jam is starting to break up: and a room of your own will be wonderful, I think. I loved the plans you have for it and would like to hear more. Thank you for your post--it's an inspiration!
I've been having the exact same mental logjam (went to check, and I haven't posted since early January 2022, dropping out of the Snowflake Challenge, sigh, which I'm not even going to try this coming year)--it was horrific in 2020, and we moved in the fall (which helped--escaping from Texas to Bellingham, Washington was WONDERFUL--but was also exhausting). I'm getting back into writing my academic stuff, and hope that the creative stuff comes back to, but yes, a huge block for Dreamwidth.
I spent five minutes on Twitter and fled, and although Facebook was OK for a while, it's so horrible I'm leaving by the end of this month, determined to start posting again on Dreamwidth. I bounced off Tumblr hard, at least three times.
I've been reading on DW all along, though only sporadically commenting (going to change that too I hope), and as you, I enjoy reading what other people are writing about, any topics, but especially what they're reading, what they're grateful for, what's happening in their lives, but when I think about trying to post that sort of thing myself, I freeze up (mine isn't quite a logjam, apparently but sporadic icing over?).
And I think your plan for getting a big hammer (which would work on ice!) and trying to get back to what I also remember doing which was posting about anything and everything and just. having. fun. I also have to smack my obsessive/perfectionist mania down because that keeps me from being able just to dash something off (which I used to do on DW especially!).
So my DW will be for all my personal/fun stuff -- I'm setting up a Substack for my Tolkien and scholarship stuff (will talk about Tolkien stuff here, but the Substack newsletter will be more about the scholarly writing and activities I pursue).
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I'm glad to hear the jam is starting to break up: and a room of your own will be wonderful, I think. I loved the plans you have for it and would like to hear more. Thank you for your post--it's an inspiration!
I've been having the exact same mental logjam (went to check, and I haven't posted since early January 2022, dropping out of the Snowflake Challenge, sigh, which I'm not even going to try this coming year)--it was horrific in 2020, and we moved in the fall (which helped--escaping from Texas to Bellingham, Washington was WONDERFUL--but was also exhausting). I'm getting back into writing my academic stuff, and hope that the creative stuff comes back to, but yes, a huge block for Dreamwidth.
I spent five minutes on Twitter and fled, and although Facebook was OK for a while, it's so horrible I'm leaving by the end of this month, determined to start posting again on Dreamwidth. I bounced off Tumblr hard, at least three times.
I've been reading on DW all along, though only sporadically commenting (going to change that too I hope), and as you, I enjoy reading what other people are writing about, any topics, but especially what they're reading, what they're grateful for, what's happening in their lives, but when I think about trying to post that sort of thing myself, I freeze up (mine isn't quite a logjam, apparently but sporadic icing over?).
And I think your plan for getting a big hammer (which would work on ice!) and trying to get back to what I also remember doing which was posting about anything and everything and just. having. fun. I also have to smack my obsessive/perfectionist mania down because that keeps me from being able just to dash something off (which I used to do on DW especially!).
So my DW will be for all my personal/fun stuff -- I'm setting up a Substack for my Tolkien and scholarship stuff (will talk about Tolkien stuff here, but the Substack newsletter will be more about the scholarly writing and activities I pursue).