When too much writing is not enough

I chanced upon Sarah Dessen’s blog today, and completely resonated with her post about social media burn out. Which is ironic, considering that I just started this blog. But not so ironic when you realise I have about 5 blogs, 2 Twitter accounts, a LinkedIn profile, Facebook, and a host of others I’d started and then left behind because they became so 2005.

And a day job. A bloody difficult day job.

Read Outspoken Media’s blog today about how blogging in particular is supposed to have leveled the publishing playing – when in actuality,

it just highlighted a large segment of the population that shouldn’t have been publishing in the first place. Because they couldn’t write. Or because they had nothing interesting to say.

Sadly, there are some days where I cannot write. And there are more days when I have absolutely nothing interesting to say that hasn’t already been covered by someone else more eloquent, and with infinitely more time. I don’t know who these online content generators are, but the ones who blog once a day? Who tweet every hour? Are either completely wired on coffee, or perhaps do social media-related things for a living. Because most times, I’m not even in the head space to blog about something. Let alone in front of a computer or handheld gadget with internet access sans corporate firewall.

So no, I haven’t figured it all out yet, Sarah. There’s a part of me that suspects I’m trying too hard to fit in with what society is now saying about thought leadership. As though thought leadership comes up with brilliance every three hours and tweets/blogs/posts/FBs with alarming alacrity and presence of mind. For now, I’m going to focus on why I want to blog about writing in the first place – and that’s mostly to feel like I’m going through this journey with other people who understand.

Even if Google hasn’t indexed this site yet. has only just started to index my site. In >72 hours! w00t!