I have been writing less

 I went to read my “New Year, new me” post and I laughed. I had made you guys all sorts of promises that I am not keeping now. Well, I guess it is on y’all for trusting the promises of a Yoruba man.

You guys must be sick of me by now, after each post I promise to post more consistently and then post even less, but this might be my longest “Hiatus”. (I mean, asides from that time I didn’t write for a whole year. In my defense, I was having a really rough year back then).

My increased lack of consistency had me wondering why I was writing less, I mean there are the regular reasons like laziness, lack of drive, lack of motivation, or incentive (cause this is just a hobby to me, a diary maybe at this point). But I know that isn’t enough, even I wasn’t buying it. After a while, I think I eventually found 2 reasons that are about genuine enough.

One is that I actually trained myself a couple of years back to stop having an opinion about everything. Technically I didn’t stop having opinions, I still do have opinions about everything, but I somehow found how not to always share them unless I needed to or it was going to do some good. What is the point of sharing my viewpoint even if I believe it is logical if it’s just going to needlessly hurt or upset people? That being said, if you look around, you’d see that this entire blog is built on me being opinionated, the dang thing is literally named like so. You should have put 2 and 2 together at this point and seen why this has stopped me from writing.

Secondly, I realized even though I have to write a lot at work, it doesn’t spur me to write on here because it is a different type of writing with a lot of research and actual facts, not just me talking about what I feel. Again, in case you haven’t noticed, that’s what this blog is all about. Me talking about things that I FEEL.

I believe this is where the issue is, I now tend to do more research than before before writing. What this has led to is more informed points and arguments, but at what cost? Halfway through my research on a topic, I would have lost the whole plot, my perspective would have changed several times that I would lose the punchline I planned to use. In the end, I just end up leaving the whole thing or finishing a content that doesn’t even excite me anymore. Boyy do I miss the days when I just spread misinformation and whatever subjective view without batting an eye.

Moving on, I can’t hold on to these, they are basically excuses and I can’t dwell on them. I had to think of some ways I can use get around this. The first one is by getting suggestions from you guys on what topics you want me to write on. I also thought of SEO writing, which is basically researching topics that are popping and writing on them, this should theoretically help me gain more viewers as well. Lastly, I think I can collaborate more with other blog owners to write on topics together. I believe these will spur me to write more.

In conclusion, I have identified the problems, the causes, and the solutions, I am open to more suggestions on solutions. The comment box is also open for topics. So now on to implementation. If that goes well, you’d know from my several posts before December or the absence thereof. Till then, Sayonara!