Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.
So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.
Ned Oct 21, 2025 at 7:45am In response to "Rupert"
My favorite cartoon bear was Yogi Bear who was the gruff philospher of Jellystone Park. Oh and uh, hey hey Boo Boo. He was smarter than the average bear.
Amethyst SkellyBones Angel I wrestled with horror for a few years after joining WdC. It's not really my thing but I figured that horror included disgust, so that's what I aimed for. My real breakthrough came when I gave up and wrote comedy horror instead. It's amazingly easy.
🦉 Owl-oween The trick is to live in the imagined country. Then, if you need to know something about the place, all you have to do is see for yourself. After all, it's your head that the country inhabits and vice versa.
Well, yesterday was my tenth post since starting the Blog with the Bard thing. So I've achieved the goal and now the question is: Do I carry on blogging or should I take this opportunity to escape? And the answer has to be that I carry on. After all, that's what I did last year and now the blog has displayed its usefulness as a place for sundry thoughts that don't fit elsewhere.
But none of that Post a Day business, however. That was an artificial burden I placed on myself purely to get the Bard thing done quickly. From now on the pressure is off and, if there ain't nuthin' to say, I won't say it.
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