Writer's block
I've been thinking a lot about what should I blog in my first Sun blog entry, ever since I get this blog account two weeks ago. Some topics came across my mind: Solaris scsi io stack, storage industry or my 8 month-old son. All are good topics worth writing. However, instead of starting to write one of the topics, I forced myself into a trap evaluating which topic is better, in terms of being the #1 post of my blog. The result, obviously is not good: no single post in the past two weeks.
I am kinda surprised that I have experienced the writer's block on blogging. Not because I am a good writer, but because I just took a business communication course 3 months ago. On that course Professor Mendel taught me a very practical way to overcome writer's block: in essence, writing is a form of thinking. So whenever I need to write something, I should start with ease: write everything in my mind and come up with a rough draft, or in Professor's words, "a disposable draft". The idea of a rough draft is to provide a basis to start the thinking process. I can pick up ideas, organize thought and edit based on the rough draft. Since everyone can write the rough draft, the writer's block should never happen; and one can always work on the rough draft.
This post is actually a practice of Prof. Mendel way of overcoming writer's block: since I am thinking of writer's block, I am writing all that down and enjoying my first Sun blog.
I am kinda surprised that I have experienced the writer's block on blogging. Not because I am a good writer, but because I just took a business communication course 3 months ago. On that course Professor Mendel taught me a very practical way to overcome writer's block: in essence, writing is a form of thinking. So whenever I need to write something, I should start with ease: write everything in my mind and come up with a rough draft, or in Professor's words, "a disposable draft". The idea of a rough draft is to provide a basis to start the thinking process. I can pick up ideas, organize thought and edit based on the rough draft. Since everyone can write the rough draft, the writer's block should never happen; and one can always work on the rough draft.
This post is actually a practice of Prof. Mendel way of overcoming writer's block: since I am thinking of writer's block, I am writing all that down and enjoying my first Sun blog.
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Glad to write the first comment for your blog. My congratulations to you! Writing is hard, it takes time and patience. When one starts blogging he or she hopes someone would eventualy read it, and it's hard to keep writing without feedback. I'd like to cheer you up with it.
I'm 21 years old SCJP (got it this winter). I'm living in Russia and (almost) every day I read Sun blogs. I have my favorites. And I hope yours would be one of them. I must admit that I don't usualy pay much attention to bloggers from Asia, I know only English and Russian (and certainly, Java). But I love your speach, its fluency and depth. Keep on doing it that way!
I wish you happy writing and nice comments!
Your reader,
Andrew.
Posted by Andrew Listochkin on June 28, 2007 at 05:22 PM HKT #