{"id":1413,"date":"2015-06-08T16:11:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-06-08T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T23:11:24","slug":"and-the-view-was-of-a-concrete-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/and-the-view-was-of-a-concrete-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"And The View Was Of a Concrete Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for June 8th:\u00a0Blogger in a Strange Land<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>What\u2019s the strangest place from which you\u2019ve posted to your blog? When was the last time you were out and about, and suddenly thought, \u201cI need to write about this!\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n

Well I\u2019m a wimp. I never blog from anywhere except home sweet home. Not that I am opposed to on-the-go blogging. I just don\u2019t have my act together when I\u2019m out and about. I suppose I could blog with my phone, but\u2026 I\u2019m a tactile writer, I take energy and inspiration from the clickety-clack of the keyboard. Sliding my thumbs over a tiny screen, squinting with myopia the whole time, doesn\u2019t inspire.<\/p>\n

The closest I\u2019ve ever come to \u201cexotic blogging\u201d would be the time I was in Puerto Rico in the middle of a DBTC effort on 750words.com<\/a>. DBTC stands for \u201cDon\u2019t Break the Chain\u201d and was inspired by advice Jerry Seinfeld offered on being productive (basically, you pick a daily task, and mark a calendar everytime you complete it. Soon you have a row of Xs, and that should motivate to keep going, so that you don\u2019t break the chain.\u201d 750words.com is a website where you are encouraged to write\u2014 you guess it\u2014 750 words, a kind of daily writing warm-up. The website gives you a badge for consecutive days, and I\u2019m a sucker for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

So there I was everyday in our hotel room just outside of Old and New San Juan, desperate for a wifi signal, tapping away on a small portable keyboard that was bluetoothed to my Ipad. I wasn\u2019t blogging back then, just writing, and not anything readable, either. Yes, if it occured to me, I wrote about what we did on the trip. But I\u2019m not one for travel-logging, usually. So moistly I just typed whatever.<\/p>\n

I should, though. I should get into off-site blogging. Goodness knows I\u2019ve explored the necessities. I\u2019ve got the aforementioned portable keyboard, and another foldable keyboard, and a few tablets, and that Ipad, and another iPad Mini, and a Chromebook, as well as my work-laptop. Heck, I\u2019m in line to upgrade my phone to one of those bigger Samsung Note behemoths, which is basically a tablet unto itself. There\u2019s no reason not to exoto-blog!<\/p>\n

Except, of course, that I don\u2019t take inspiration from being elsewhere. I\u2019m an insular writer, and I work from home, so I don\u2019t need to be out and about, don\u2019t need to decide if I should sacrifice blog time to get things done.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should try anyway. On Tuesdays I got to a bar to drink beer with friends. Maybe once I get that giganto-phone I can start going an hour early and see what happens. Hey, whatever I come up with can;t be more than this sad entry! (My apologies for that, by the way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for June 8th:\u00a0Blogger in a Strange Land.\u00a0What\u2019s the strangest place from which you\u2019ve posted to your blog? When was the last time you were out and about, and suddenly thought, \u201cI need to write about this!\u201d? Well I\u2019m a wimp. I never blog from anywhere except home sweet home. Not that I am opposed … <\/p>\n

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