Write something worth a damn. Write something that requires you to tear a chunk of your soul away and leave it dripping, bloody, on the page. For my amusement, or your amusement, or her’s. Put something of yourself into the process. Get some skin in the game. If you don’t, you might as well be writing press releases. Life is too short, and the opportunity afforded us by this marvelous community and platform is too good to squander it on typological masturbation. Fuck me with your stories. Please.
- Gary Rogers's "Write Something Worth a Damn"
Just yesterday I wrote a piece on writing everyday, and I write on the same topic today too. Unoriginal and uninspired sure, but at least I am writing on consecutive days - A first on the blog. I did say that "I will be looking at Writing Prompts now" but because the laziness, I didn't. At the very least laziness did not stop me from writing this very boring blogpost. It could have been worse, all the self-hate of yesterday might have drawn down in procrastination.
Anyway, it seems that faith of this blog is to be a very loosely kept diary ( I have tried keeping diary before, never lasted more than a week.) But that will be an improvement over it being nothing. Unlike yesterday I keep no bitterness writing this piece despite it being even more lame than yesterday, a good thing? Might it be "करत-करत अभ्यास के जडमति होत सुजान । रसरी आवत-जात ते सिल पर परत निशान ॥" in action? If yes, then ts surely a good thing. On other hand I have now tried reading more and more blogposts. I liked 'High-Speed Rail in India' and 'Why I Keep a Research Blog' today. Adding the links here with barely any readership on an unindexed website will not do any good to these already popular blogs, but I guess it will be easier for me to find them again and perhaps one day even write a post inspired by them!
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