I can’t even begin to tell you how many ideas I have for blog posts that never make it onto this page. And the rough drafts are endless. There’s no telling if even this will earn the honored status of “Posted.”
I’ve started to write reviews of movies that I’ve seen, but then I forget about them and they become irrelevant. Or I feel as though I’m not doing a good job of reviewing a book because I don’t feel like picking apart every literary element of it. Sometimes, I just like a book. It really can be that simple.
Sometimes, I have really great ideas. Epiphanies, even. These undoubtedly occur while I’m in the shower, or driving, or cleaning dog poop out of the yard, or any other situation where I just can’t drop what I’m doing and write it down. Or I make the mistake of thinking I’ll remember it. You’d think I would learn from that mistake, but I haven’t yet.
Perhaps the worse attempts are when I think I have a good idea, but it all just melts into sophomoric mush when it hits the screen. A topic that sounds truly amazing, like it could really be something special, comes out wooden and dull. Bluh.
So here’s to the failed blog posts. Here’s to the bad ideas, the good ideas gone wrong, the half-ass reviews, the drafts that just never get finished, and the ideas that simply get forgotten. Because without them, the good posts wouldn’t be nearly so good.
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Ashley O'Melia, Author 