There are quite a few problems when it comes to maintaining a blog. This blog for example, started when two people were very bored. "We had the time, we had the power, we are yet to have our finest hour..." but that's it. The enthusiasm vanishes when readers dwindle and you are left alone. At least, this blog has reached around <mumble mumble> views in total (not counting our own page views that is). The previous one I maintained had a total readership of two unique ip addresses : 1) I read the drivel I had written myself at home and 2) I read the same thing again from a different ip address. That was fun. There was no criticism whatsoever and all my readers enjoyed whatever I wrote, as the brighter few of you might have guessed.
Secondly, ideas don't float around in mid air, especially during holidays, when admiring ceiling fans seems like a good enough pastime. If suppose, we had started this blog around the beginning of May, the time our semester exams started, we would have updated the blog every single hour! That's the time when I start getting questions like "Does water dissolve in salt?". I asked that question to my room mates during my first year in college and they still haven't forgiven me for the discussion (fight?) they had about that question for almost two hours that night. But, during holidays, you just don't get the time! You are always busy sitting idly or as I mentioned before admiring plain white ceiling fans (bulbs sometime do fit in perfectly, just that they don't rotate).
Thirdly, people have interns. This in turn leads them to concentrate more on writing a report on how a particular machine's task could be improved so as to give a higher overall efficiency (yawn) as compared to writing a more descriptive piece on how much more fun it would be if your laptop's password was an audio file of a song or a queer pose. So, when the person you started the blog with runs away to big companies doing interns or hides in places where you can't reach him, you really have no choice but to...
.... write articles titled "Why is it almost impossible to maintain a blog?" which brings me to my final point. When I find myself in such times of trouble and no one comes to me with words of wisdom, it is a good thought to write a short piece on why you aren't writing.
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| Cacchination, fremescence, witzelsucht are big words. And I do not know their meanings, hence I won't use them |
Secondly, ideas don't float around in mid air, especially during holidays, when admiring ceiling fans seems like a good enough pastime. If suppose, we had started this blog around the beginning of May, the time our semester exams started, we would have updated the blog every single hour! That's the time when I start getting questions like "Does water dissolve in salt?". I asked that question to my room mates during my first year in college and they still haven't forgiven me for the discussion (fight?) they had about that question for almost two hours that night. But, during holidays, you just don't get the time! You are always busy sitting idly or as I mentioned before admiring plain white ceiling fans (bulbs sometime do fit in perfectly, just that they don't rotate).
Thirdly, people have interns. This in turn leads them to concentrate more on writing a report on how a particular machine's task could be improved so as to give a higher overall efficiency (yawn) as compared to writing a more descriptive piece on how much more fun it would be if your laptop's password was an audio file of a song or a queer pose. So, when the person you started the blog with runs away to big companies doing interns or hides in places where you can't reach him, you really have no choice but to...
.... write articles titled "Why is it almost impossible to maintain a blog?" which brings me to my final point. When I find myself in such times of trouble and no one comes to me with words of wisdom, it is a good thought to write a short piece on why you aren't writing.
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