Perhaps you are too close to it still. I don’t know. I find it hard to write about it when I’m in the thick of it because I just don’t have the perspective to get anything out in a coherent way.

I run into this problem with the incomplete thoughts in writing some of the posts on my blogs. People would probably laugh at me if they saw that I generally have ten to fifteen incomplete drafts saved to Wordpress at any given time.

I don’t see it as so much of a problem. That’s just the way my mind works.

What I’ll do is write the post that pops into my head as fast as possible, not even going back to fix spelling errors, just to get it out there. I don’t publish it though.

I then split the messy post into 5 or more separate posts based on each topic I touched on and just work on each post as the mood strikes me.

It may not be the most efficient way to work but, it works with my abstract thought patterns.

@WC – I like to think that is part of the problem, maybe it is simply being too close to what is going on.

I’m thinking that I need to just step back – maybe…

@OB – You bring up an interesting way of posting (and something I am going to try). Let me ask you this, tho… how do you know when your post is “done”?

Sometimes mine never are. After posting my last comment, I decided to go back and take a look at some of my drafts. I had one in there that I haven’t touched since August.

I think maybe trying not to over-analyze helps. I can sit down and punish myself over getting it just exactly right for weeks.

Over-analyzing yourself and your environment can be in itself a symptom of depression. If you do this, you can end up editing the humanity out of your writing (I have a really bad tendency of doing this).

I think whenever you feel like the point you originally set out to make is made to your satisfaction, then it’s done. I wouldn’t worry about anybody else.

I think I post all the stuff that is rambling and half-assed…is it possible your inner critic is stopping you from just expressing yourself??

I just don’t care…I pump stuff out and post it…bam…

not sure when this happened—just a couple of years ago..I stopped censoring myself…

my brain doesn’t work very well either…horribly compared to when I was at university, but I just say what the heck and post whatever drivle comes out of my mouth (fingers)…

I may be off base…maybe you’re really struggling with something else…

I’ve simply found it liberating to not give f*&^ about what I post…

there are times I can’t write and then I just don’t try…

go easy on yourself.

peace.

Hi Gianna…

I like the approach OB has, so I am going to give that a try. I don’t know that it’s an inner critic, I just think it’s my mind going all over the place.

I do agree, second you remove the filter it does seem to just come out a heck of a lot easier.

Hey OB…

You hit on one big thing – I can over-analyze bit time. You hit it on the head, tho… the second that I think the point is made that’s when it’s done!