Over the past few months, I've noticed that I've been having a harder and harder time sitting down and writing blog entries from start to finish, especially longer posts. It was like I lost my writing stamina. There are a lot of derelict posts sitting in draft form just waiting for a little more attention and polishing from me, though most will likely never get it.
Even when I look through my archives for posts for the Friday Favorites segment, I notice that most of them seem much shorter than I had remembered as well.
Anyway, with that interview request I had from the CBC last week, I wanted to make sure that the Pop Culture Supreme Court had enough verdicts for the taping, so I made a deal with Lee from Quit Your Day Job. He was in a bind as he is in the process of finalizing a deal to buy a house, so he needed some people to do some guest posting, and I wanted a simple verdict from a few alternate justices, so we traded services as it were, though knowing Lee, he likely would have done it without the offer, so it was totally kosher. He held up his end of the bargain, so today, I did my part... and that's when the strange thing happened.
Somehow I managed to crack out a 1400 word entry for him in about an hour and a half today.
To put that in perspective, that is about the same number of words I've written for my own blog since last Monday (the Friday Favorite post and the explanation of the Transmundanity Awards are excluded from that word count because those are previously written work). Yes, it was a slow couple of weeks, but almost matching 10 entries with one is pretty freaky.
I looked back and tried to find an entry of comparable length here, and the closest I found somewhat recently was my Top 10 South Park episodes entry... and I remember I worked on that over two days, so I am having trouble accepting the fact that it was suddenly so much easier today than it has been in a long time.
Quite frankly I am stunned, and I don't get it. How come it seems so hard to stay on task and actually finish entries here, but when asked to do one for someone else, it just seemed to materialize in a matter of minutes. That's just messed up.
Has anyone else found it was easier to guest post than to write something for your own blog, or is this something that is unique to me?
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