Making a blog entry (back to life).

I have decided to start writing in this blog.

My reasons for starting it up again are ............

1.) because when I get this really popular blog everyone will want me to come and write for their magazine, pay me to advertise on my site, offer me recording contracts etc.
2.) I am scared of being permanently “abandoned and left to the web graveyard”.
3.) I need to add a funny line here.

The main trouble with starting up the blog again is that I have to try to think of something that I can be arsed to write about. For me this is a big problem. After such a long gap since the last (and only) post I feel as though the next one should be quite good (but so far this entry is totally shit). I think the way forward is just to post stuff all the time – that way if you post something crap it’s soon forgotten. Also it’s really annoying when you keep going back to someone’s blog in the hope they’ve updatted it but you keep seeing the same headline. For example, tonedog’s blog when he had that “Passion for passion” heading up for fucking ages!

Since my last post I have thought of a number of different things I could make my next entry about.

When I was reading the “things to do in Toyama” monthly newsletter a couple of months back one of the month’s highlights was the Uozu “illuminations”. Basically this consists of a few Christmas lights around the station. I thought it would be funny to take a picture of these lights to show people just what a “highlight” these really were! I couldn’t be bothered though.

Another idea I had was to look at the comments to my last post for inspiration for what to write about this time. I quite liked the image of this “web graveyard” that I have been abandoned to – I thought about writing this dramatic description of how I was going to ressurect myself. Something along the lines of ….

It was a foul and stormy night and from the midst of a dark woodland strange sounds could be heard. The cry of a wolf howling, the toot of an owl and the relentless crashing of the wind and rain. From deep within the murky depths of this vile landscape a distguisting creature began to stir. Leaves rustled and brances snapped, as slowly but surely the dormant beast began to emerge. First its head and shoulders rose cautiously from the sess pool of decay. Next its giant body clawed itself out of the detesable bog from which it came. Before long the full horror of this monstrosity became apparent……

……Barry and Maverick’s Japan World Blog Tour was back from the dead.

This was just one idea for a blog post anyway. However, I thought that on its own that wasn’t really enough for a whole blog entry and also I’m not very good at using big words. So I searched on the internet for “back from the dead” to see if I could find any inspiration to drag it out a bit or just for stuff to copy and pretend it was my own work.

The most interesting things I found in this search were the details of a film about a newly married young woman who is possessed by the evil spirit of her husband's deceased first wife. The possession turns her into a scheming killer who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

I couldn’t really think of anyway of incorporating this into the back from the dead blog idea other than just mentioning it for no reason (which I have done). The next related thing I found on the internet was a book interested in what would happen if the United States abolished the death penalty and emptied its Death Rows? If the killers were released from prison would they kill again?

At first I thought this sounded kind of interesting but then I thought nah, it’s probably pretty boring and not very inspiring for my blog. Dunno why I’m including it really.

The final thing I found on the internet was a piece of writing called How to Bring Someone Back from the Dead by Veronica Schanoes. I found the title to be slightly misleading as it didn’t actually appear to tell you how to bring people back from the dead. Shame, because that would probably be quite a useful skill to have.

So as a result of this searching I became a little disillusioned with this back from the dead idea and thought about other options. After playing around with all these different ideas on what to write at last a good idea came to me – (I say good….) I thought “I know I’ll write a blog entry all about my attempts to write an original and interesting blog entry!” So this is what I’ve tried to do.

I don’t really feel as though I’ve found my “blog voice” yet (see above). I get these good ideas (I say good...)in my head but then when I write them down they just don’t seem to work very well. When I write something I usually read it back to myself and end up thinking “twat.” (as I have just done on reading that back to myself). (I’ve now read this back a few times and it gets worse every time).

Shirley Kawa-Jump from the internet says that finding your true writing voice is a lot like falling in love -- you know it when it happens. Until then, you bumble along, trying this style and that, wondering if this is it or if a better voice is out there just waiting for you. You question and doubt, reaching nearly the point of despair before finally, your true voice comes to you and you know exactly who you are as a writer.

I think for now I am just starting out in the bumbling along, questioning and doubting, nearly reaching the point of despair stage. People (Richard) will read my work and think, “yeah he’s tried to make that funny, hasn't really worked has it!” For now I will be thinking the same thing but once I eventually find my true voice it’ll be as though I’ve fallen in love!

So I better post some new stuff quick so this crap gets forgotten!