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20SB Blog Swap: Fizzle

By Carlee Mallard, on April 14th, 2010

Today goes on record as the first Guest Post over here ever. Hopefully it’s not the last, either. This is a different type of guest post, though. Over at 20-Something Bloggers (www.20sb.net) they decided it would be cool to pair a bunch of us together to take over each others’ blogs for one day. Today is that day. So here we go!

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Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. My name’s Heather. I’m an artist in the process of learning to embrace my often scatter brained and temporarily unstable self, and I am totally usurping the lovely Carlee’s blog today. Please bear with me, as I may not make the best of impressions via this guest post. It’s after midnight, I’ve had an insanely chaotic day week existence, and I’m on the verge of fizzling right the heck out.

Speaking of which, fizzling seems to be a recurring event with me. As of late, I’ve come to realize that I lose initiative for things that are expected of me. It seems I pretty much refuse to meet any criteria outside of work, even my own. You’d think it’d be different if it was something I came up with, but nope. No, I even get a little ticked off if I expect something of myself.

Take blogging, for example. It’s not only about blathering incessantly over things which we adore, loathe and obsess. It’s about community-the community created by sharing the interwebs, our lives and experiences. Glorious, right? Community is my absolute favorite thing about blogging, but a tiger’s stripes are hard to change. What do you think I do when I’m expected to kick out a blog post? Well, I can tell you I don’t feel like a contributing member of society, that’s for sure. I fizzle, and that’s my least favorite thing about the whole endeavor!

Carlee’s bloggers, this is a problem. The first step is admitting, right? So…now what? What do you do when you feel the pressure looming overhead? Am I the only one? Perhaps it’s merely a mental divergence weird little rebellious streak, but I’m thinking something has got to give.

C’mon blogging community. Don’t fail me now.

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  • http://www.madmadamimm.blogspot.com Heather Rose

    Yay for blog swaps, and meeting new bloggers! It really inspires me to get back into writing more, despite my fizzling issues. I have so much to document, but just not enough time and that creates such pressure. Carlee, I know you understand and that makes me feel a lot better for my miniature post here. I blame it on sleep deprivation/delirium. I'll be happy to debut your post whenever you've got time to make it happen. So nice to meet you!

  • http://carleemallard.com/ Carlee Mallard

    Community is one of my favorite things about blogging, too. But I feel you on the fizzling front — sometimes I feel like I'm not giving my blog the attention it deserves. Sometimes I feel like I'm doing too many things at once. Like last night when I said I would write the blog post by midnight, but ended up falling asleep in my clothes (“just gonna rest my eyes for 5 minutes”) and waking up at 5am not knowing where I am or how I was going to get that post written. I could have said “screw it” and just put it off for another time, but I didn't, because I value blogging and my community. It's important to me, so we stick with it even when we think we're about to fizzle right out.

    Thanks for guest posting, Heather!!

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