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Status update

For a while I have tried to add links, status updates and other content to this site, besides my normal blog posts and poems. I have decided to end that. It is too cumbersome. Granted, the software I use for my blog, WordPress, does provide some nice features for adding other types of content. And it is nice to have all my own content in one place. But adding links, images and updates to blog posts and poems makes for a pretty confusing expierence, I think.

Also, I noticed that in another way I am making it too easy for myself: I write less and I am content with adding just a simple link. That’s not what I set out to do with this site. So, back to blogging it is. And if that means I post less, then maybe it is because I have less to say.

By the way, the links are still there, but in a slightly different manner. See the list at the right side on the homepage of this site. Want more links? You can also go directly to my list with bookmarks at vanelkonline.nl.

Update, January 20, 2013: after toying with several solutions (social bookmarking, Tumblr, etc.) I am giving it another try and will keep adding links here. The links I put on my Tumblr I have imported here.

Paralysis

You know what’s hard about writing? That there are no boundaries. If you’re going to write, it can and may be about anything. Anything you can think of or have thought of before. Absolute freedom. And that is frightening.

If it can be about anything, about what will it be? What do I choose? And why? And why that and not something else? What makes that I have to  address this now and not that? After all, it can be about anything. I choose. I choose who plays a part, what they are like, what they do. I choose where it all happens, how long it will take, how much will happen.

And then another fear factor presents itself: time. If I write about this now and not about that, then maybe I am wasting valuable time, the time I was given to apply myself not to this, but to that! I am dishonoring the universal, the divine planning that handed me that time slot, yes, set it apart for me, to write about that and not about this!

That’s going to cost me, must be.

And then it hits you. That it really doesn’t matter what you write. That all of your questions don’t have answers, won’t have answers. And that with that it is unimportant. It doesn’t matter what you write about. You just have to write.