It was not long ago
that I started my blog and today I hit the mark of 100,000 page
views. For some people this is a small number but I am happy with it. Since I
always liked reading, writing was on the cards as the next step and some
progression. When I was fifteen or so, I started my first novel. I wrote maybe
five pages and this was the extend of my career as a novelist. Then I attempted
to write a journal and was more successful this time. I have in my drawers many
beautiful books with my thoughts and problems of the times. It was a long time
ago that I came across Morning Pages technique recommended by Julia Cameron.
This is writing three unedited pages first thing in a morning. Something like
stream of consciousness writing. It has not made me a James Joyce, but I solved
many small problems this way. I would recommend starting days with the morning
pages. Silly thing is that I almost stopped writing my journal in the recent
months, but I want to get back to it. This is like talking with myself without
putting any censorship on it. To make it easier to keep my new promise I
ordered a nice new roller-ball pen with inscribed Amor Fati on it. I am
getting a bit pathetic, ain’t I? Still for some years now I have liked nice pens,
harmless addiction.
So, this
historical event of reaching 100,000 page views started with the encouragement
of a friend – My question: How to start writing a blog? Answer : Just do it. And I
just did it. Thank you JC.
There is another
person I consider with fondness as my teacher in many life disciplines and in
writing as well. I believe that I wrote about is some time ago, but this is one
of the characteristics of recalling memories. Repetition. So here it goes
again. Polish written language is similar to German. Long convoluted sentences
very few people can read to the end still remembering what they started with.
It is supposed to be sophisticated and intellectual, I believe. My first business
memos were tragic and I could not understand my problem. When a well-meaning
person made five sentences out of one (I though short) of mine, I was shocked.
Without being fully convinced I started to pay attention to writing short
sentences with mixed successes, but I always remember the person who alerted me
to the facts of written communication.
As I mentioned
in one of the previous posts, I seem to have recently some problems with
finding subjects to write about. Subjects which would interest others and
myself. Subjects which would allow me to retain my sense of humour and distance
to my current situation. Being able to keep some distance to the subjects I
write about was always the key to allow seeing things clearly without emotional
clouds and blinkers.
In the recent
times I received some compliments that made my head spin. I never thought about
myself that highly as somebody wrote about my subjects and way of writing. And
now what? Noblesse Oblige? How can I live up to it? I never thought that highly
about my posts myself. Just in case I was not able to express myself accurately,
this was all said in a spirit of embarrassed humour.
Now, that I
still have not found a decent subject to write about I will stop hoping that I
will come up with something more meaningful soon.
