Huck’s list

I am returning to the well. Welcome to Monday. This is the blog that I used to write regularly. Let's see if I remember how to do this.

Initially, today, I was going to write about how I don’t know how to write these blogs anymore and that my attention span has become so bad that sitting down to write now feels more Herculean than it should. It was probably going to be yet another woe-is-me blog (which is very Monday Moaning of me). Then I remembered my list. My list of ideas on my phone. What kind of ideas? Creative ones, mostly.

For as long as I have had an iPhone (*Sponsor – Hi Tim), I have had a list in my Notes app chock full of ideas. It is not an unusual thing to have, being a creative. I learnt early on that having a place to record creative ideas of any kind is worth the time and effort to create. And so, I did.

I must tell you, dear reader, that I started losing it this morning, overthinking everything as I try to get back to a consistent blogging schedule. The opening paragraph was meant to be a bit silly, but it is based on truth. I was asking myself, “Okay, but what do I write about today?” So much has happened since I stopped blogging consistently, and I didn’t know where to start, or even whether what I thought I should be blogging about was worth blogging about.

I almost convinced myself that I had no good ideas left and would have to start from scratch. Thankfully, I stopped myself when I remembered my list of ideas. The list exists. I can breathe a sigh of relief. Now, I don’t know if any of the ideas I recorded are any good. Between now and Friday, I will have to sift through them to see if any ideas are still relevant or even worth blogging about. Only good blog ideas are permitted here.

It was a good idea to start keeping a list of ideas. At times, it didn’t feel necessary because I already knew what I was doing. Boy, was I wrong. It is a way for present-day me to take care of future me. For that, I am grateful to myself. Whenever I find myself spiralling creatively, at least I know the list is there. It could also be that in six months’ time, I will sift through the list and find all the ideas entirely unusable. For now, though, I am going to take the time to riffle through this list and start making plans to bring this blog back to the quality it used to be.

I hope Friday’s blog is to your liking. I will see you back here then. Thank you for reading, by the way. And thank you for your time.