Currently listening to “Winterbreak” by MUNA, and oh hey, I didn’t know there was a video:

Anyway, do you ever get in a groove where you obsessively listen to a song on repeat to the point where you worry you might get sick of it, and maybe you do for a little while, but after some time has passed, you go back to it and discover that you can still listen to it just as obsessively as before?

I do that a lot.

Another thing I do is read Wil Wheaton’s blog. His latest post was very quotidian, and it resonated with me:

Somewhere along the way, I decided that everything had to be just so, you know? I really got in my own head and in my own way. It doesn’t have to be huge essays or perfect, or some minimum length. It can just be my blog.

 

Writer’s Block and Creative Paralysis Hate This One Weird Trick!

 

I’m gonna try to remember that one way to just post more stuff in my blog (because it makes me happy to do that) is to just post more stuff in my blog (because it makes me happy to do that).

I just went down an internet rabbit hole and looked up the old website where I first stated blogging, twenty-three years ago. (And before that, I had a DIY site on Geocities—*shudder*—where I hand coded a semi-daily update.) It was very mundane and probably of interest to only a vanishingly small number of people, but it was a daily habit and it was something that kept me writing regularly when I wasn’t do much else in the way of creativity. And that vanishingly small number of people included some folks who came to be very good friends.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped blogging so frequently and so casually. I got it in my head that I needed to be professional in some kind of way, and that meant not being so… imperfect? Maybe unpolished is a better word.

Whatever’s the right way to describe it, trying to find that exactly right word was the kind of thing that would lead to keeping this post forever in draft mode, instead of just hitting publish, which I’ll do here shortly. As the best boss I ever had once reminded me, perfect is the enemy of the good.

If nothing else, MUNA’s a great band and you should check them out!

(Oh, and one last thing: I’m chuffed that I figured out how to edit my CSS settings so that I could fiddle with the blockquote tag and make it slightly less honkin’ huge. Let’s hear it for practical skills!)