Uninspired

How do you write a blog when you are feeling uninspired?  I have many ideas for blogs, a long list of subjects, but I like to be inspired when I’m writing them.  I feel like it makes for a better read.  Lately though, I haven’t really been inspired by anything.  But since I need to write, I will try to explain my lack of inspiration and perhaps in the course of writing this, figure out how to turn the tide.

Reason 1:  Cold, Gray January in Pittsburgh. 

I was born in Fort Lauderdale and moved to Pittsburgh just before my fourth birthday.  I vividly remember living there, and the real appreciation for Florida came when I moved to Pittsburgh.  I moved here in October of that year, and the overwhelming feeling I remember having, was that it was dark here all the time.  I remember being inside a lot and wondering when it was going to be light again.  Every January since then, all 25 years of them, I go through the same thing.  The past two days I’ve woken up to a dark gray sky that has stayed the same color until it turns black at night.  While I have a sunlamp….

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…it doesn’t replace the real thing.  All I want to do is lay on the couch and watch movies, and yesterday, I did.  Today I actually worked on my book a little then went ice-skating with my friend.  However I still have nothing I feel like writing about.  Gray Sky = UNINSPIRED #1

Reason 2:  Writing a Book 

I’ve never written a book before.  I’ve never written any fiction before, it’s definitely something new for me.  Surprisingly, its coming very easily to me, but I find that when I’m not writing, instead of looking around for inspiring ideas to blog about, I’m thinking about where I’m going to take my characters next in the book.  When I make time to write, I spend my time working on the book rather then working on the blog, interviewing people for stories, or experiencing things (also associated with the weather).  New Book Writer = UNINSPIRED #2

Reason 3: Personality Disorder

I am a slacker.  I don’t like to be, but I am.  I’m also a procrastinator and I have time management issues.  When I get started I’m fine, I generally get lost in what I’m doing and I like that.  The problem is getting me to that moment.  I tend to put things off until the last minute then when I do get engrossed, only have minimal time to complete it.  I also tend to do things in a way that isn’t the most time efficient.  Just Being Me = UNINSPIRED #3

So in the end I have three main reasons I’m not blogging as efficiently as I could be.  How to get over it?  I have no idea.  These are three major aspects of my personality that have been present since birth, or at least as long as I can remember.  I guess I’ll never get to be one of those people that coasts through life easily multi-tasking and accomplishing. I’ll just have to be more conscious of my time, push through the gray blah’s of January, and make my book time and my blog time separate but equally important.