"Forgive me Weblog, for I have sinned. It has been 16 months since my last post"
Having a weblog is an odd thing. Some people have blogs with a purpose. They write about food, comics, television, LARPing, occult adventures or their pets. Others use their blog as a kind of diary, to let off steam or empty their heads every so often.
I started this blog in November 2007. Gosh, that's more than five years ago.
The intention was to write down my opinions on whatever I could think of that interested me or struck me as important. Looking back I've written about quite a lot of things. 54 posts, in fact, if you count this one. As far as subjects go sexuality seems to have been a biggie, as does religion, nudity, polyamory, music, disability issues and Jesus being a Pagan. Then it all rather slowed down.
I think I ran out of steam because once I've said something I don't really like repeating myself. There are some writers, for instance, who will bring out a series of books which are essentially all the same, just rewritten versions of each other. I can't seem to do that. It feels like cheating.
Surprisingly I didn't post about my book coming out, which was seriously remiss of me. It took a long time to write and deserved more publicity. The launch party (at Treadwell's book shop in London on 7th Sept 2012) was also something I'll remember for long, long time. Well, the parts that weren't obliterated by red wine, anyway.
I think perhaps that Facebook has had a hand in my writing less here too. I can't possibly deny the usefulness of Facebook. I've met some amazing people on there, found my publisher, used it to advertise my own events and become involved in things I wouldn't even have known about. I still spend way too much time on there, because it's so easy and I find it easier to react to other people's statements than to come up with my own.
Funnily enough, though, the first thing I'll do when I finish writing will be to link to this on Facebook in the hope that my friends will read it. Hmmm, ironic!
There are new things I want to write about and alterations I want to make. I could definitely update the links down the side of the page. There are probably quite a few now defunct, and some new ones I want to add.
I definitely want to write about my experiences in learning to speak Welsh with SaySomethingInWelsh.com, but not until I've finished the full course which probably won't be until sometime in July or August at present rates.
I have considered writing about the present political situation especially where benefit cuts are concerned, but there are people who do a far better job already. I'd certainly like to write about my experiences with acting, the 5:2 'diet' and in the poly community, I just haven't decided what yet.
Perhaps a little discipline is what's needed. Maybe I should force myself to write something every Wednesday, no matter how banal. More drastically, perhaps I should dump this blog and start another from scratch so I can't refer people to previous posts and have to rethink everything. Okay, perhaps not.
Decisions, decisions. But there's time to decide. I doubt anybody's life is hanging in the balance waiting for my blog to cure cancer. Meanwhile I think I'll add a totally gratuitous picture of some naked people in Star Trek body paint. Because I can!
Love and literacy,
Seán xxx
