Should we remove the headline and featured sections?
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So, we need to get something checked out and thus I created this.
One of the reason I choose Arthemia Premium as a theme for this site is because of the headline and featured sections.
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Writer’s block

Submitted by manga on September 11, 2008 – 8:17 pm4 Comments

Good image

Impz from THAT Animeblog wrote a quite intresting post about how he feels that his writting needed improvement and the possible causes of this.

For me, it´s two things. One is that I need to get better at thinking stuff up to write about and make it sound good. And to follow the damn red thread trough the whole post.

Second is that I´ve gotten myself into a writer´s block where alas, I have pretty much ideas of what to write about, but I can never find the right words.

To add things up, I can barely write things in two or more sittings, the more time I spend on an entry the more I feel like I need to rewrite the whole thing since I´ve messed stuff up or the point that I wanted to make didn´t come out right.

The most important thing, to feel that it is fun to write comes and goes for me. I started out bloging about Macross Frontier, but then all of a sudden lost intrest in bloging it. And now when it has taken such a bad dive I don´t know really what to do about it.

And it all have gotten me to start thinking on what I really want to write about. I started this to write about games and anime. But I´m to lazy to write about every single ep from the shows I watch, hell I can´t even keep my motivation up for one show.

In games I can write about things. But then it feels weird, just take a look at the Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice tag and you´ll notice quite a few entries.

Sure it gives me stuff to write about, but that isn´t really what I want to write. A First Impressions post about a game is always good. But what should I write after that? A final review get´s placed in the reviews section so that isn´t a possible post topic.

Would it be nice to see what I think after I´ve played say 10h of the same game? If it is possible that is :p but since I play mostly RPGs I think it should be possible to pull that one of.

Along the problems, I started this blog with the intention to suply kinda big pictures. But I soon realised that wasn´t really something that would work as a long time solution since they stack up on space.

Picasa works really well as a suplement, but then with this theme I can´t really use it unless I want to add multiple images to a single post. The post image needs to be placed in the wp-contents folder, which in a way is a great thing.

Since I wrote the post “Thoughts about Pokemon” visitors have racked up. But only for that single post. I feel pretty down thinking that people just visit here to either watch the ecchi images or complain to me about different things. Take a look at the comments and you´ll see what I mean…

I don´t know what to do with that post. It´s the most popular post on this blog, but I don´t know. I don´t think I want people to come here only for one single post. I do think I want them to come here to read the latest post or just comment on my other posts. Not to visit a single post.

How to solve this? Make the post private? Doesn´t stop searchenginees from sending people here or take the pictures away from my server. So how to erase one post from the search engines?

Along with all this I can go from being super happy and positive to depressed in like 5 seconds. The weird part is that when I feel down and I´m depressed I tend to write my best posts. I´m depressed at the moment and look at this. I´ve written sorta on topic the whole time and it works to write.

So, tips, encouragement, flames? Anything will do at this point.

4 Comments »

  • Panther says:

    Ah you read Impz’s but missed mine and Usagi’s. Here is the link to mine, it has Usagi’s link in it.

  • Reflect says:

    Quite an interesting post Panther & Manga. My apologies as I can’t say much although I do feel I can do better with my posts which is why I haven’t been posted much lately finalizing each post, a little bit – possibly I will make a response to this some time later.

  • manga says:

    Panther: I´ve had this kind of post in my head for a long time. I just hadn´t gotten around to actually writting it down and not sounding like a complete jackass :p

    So it was just a random thing that I read Impz post before writting this and with it being partly the same topic well I thought I had to link that article.

    So I didn´t miss you on purpose. But nice article yourself :) And yes, Usagi´s was really well written.

    Reflect: All up to you :) For me the most important thing is that I´m having fun while writting, which is kinda weird since as I said, I was pretty depressed when I wrote this post and it turned out pretty well.

    The pingback though is something I´m very curious about. Since it seems to be yet another one of these damn sites that makes a pingback to everything you write and claims it is for your own good…