Back in June I posted about the agonistics feeding the blog. Here we are again, sitting about, staring at the screen, fiddling about with iTunes, trawling through other people’s blogs in search of inspiration, writing a sentence, glaring at it, deleting it, over and over. I wonder, does every blogger put themselves through this, or have I missed some colossally obvious point? Do the other bloggers whose work I admire spend hours in a frenzy of composition, or does it all drip from them like honey from the bee-drowsing comb of late summer? Are we a band of (slightly deranged) brethren of the pen, slaving in world-wide concert for no other reward than the sweet savour of words and some few lines of admiration and pleasure in the comments? Or are you all staring at me now thinking ‘Christ, no, it takes me about ten minutes to write a post. What on earth is the matter with you?’
[I thought we were toning down the self-pity - Ed]
