Can I share
something with you, dear reader?
I’d like to
take you on a journey inside my imagination. Don’t worry - I won’t steer you to
the weirder zones (even I don’t want to go there).
I see my own
imagination as a universe teeming with ideas and thoughts hurtling around the
cosmos, some of which take form and head towards a central point where they can
evolve and hopefully make the transition from my mind’s eye to the real world,
becoming a Word document, a comment in my notepad or an email to myself to store
in my ideas folder.
The pinnacle
of this evolutionary process is a blog post.
However, I sometimes
have a problem – actually getting these ideas to evolve into something
tangible.
Sometimes, I
am delighted when I have a thought and convert into a blog post. Yet there are
many times when I find it tough. Such ideas are quite good until the point when
I try to put pen to paper and at that point they refuse to advance any further.
There are
several reasons for this.
Some ideas
seem great in my head yet but when converted into real words lose impact and
refuse to progress any further.
Other ideas
when reviewed at a later stage seem to be ridiculous and are cast back into my
imagination in the hope that they can improve.
Yet more
ideas are simply too weird to be cast into the limelight.
I equate the
process as similar to trying to crowbar an elephant into a garden shed –
pointless and impossible.
Yet,
bizarrely, the more annoyed I am about an idea, the higher the likelihood that
it will be cast onto the internet for you to read, dear reader. It’s almost as
if my creative juices are fuelled by an inner rage. I like to think of this as
my inner Hulk.
When the inner Hulk speaks, I stop worrying about how good or bad the post
is and focus solely on getting all of the angry words down. As the thoughts
cascade around my head and the volume of my inner ranting voice increases, I
find that I type faster and before I know it I have a very crude blog post that
just needs to be sharpened before publication.
And that
worries me slightly.
By nature I
am a very laid back person who doesn’t like to be angry. Ranting is therapeutic
and helps to disperse the rage – which is a good thing. The problem is that
this shouldn’t be the catalyst that helps an embryonic idea develop into a blog
post.
I need
another more inspirational method to be more creative. I have been exploring
the options and there are definite ways to achieve this.
One other
method that works is to be passionate about the idea. Regular readers will know
that I pepper my inane nonsense with posts about music, something I like to do
on a fairly regular basis to bore you into coma. While my inner ranting voice
inspires me to write about things that make me angry, another inner voice – the
Blind Enthusiast – pours out my inner enthusiasm in a similar way to the inner
Hulk.
I reckon
that if I allow the Blind Enthusiast to expand his horizons, more of my weird
ideas will make it from my imagination onto the internet to bore you even more,
dear reader.
With that in
mind, I am apologising in advance for the posts that will appear over the
coming months – starting with this one.
The Blind Enthusiast
is currently in charge and raring to go.
Before I go,
let me just ask:
How do you
develop ideas into blog posts?
Do you have
an Inner Hulk or Blind Enthusiast?
Are you as
weird as I am?
Thanks for
listening.
