Sometimes I find it so hard to sit down and write. The ideas of what to type just don't materialize in my head; I can go looking for all the stimulus I know of and still I can't pin anything down that I can work into a post. You would think that only doing this once a week (or so) would make it easier, that I'd think up lots of stuff during the week, but it never seems to be the case; perhaps because I only write once a week I don't think of things in the context of "oh, that would go well on the site".

I'm amazed at people who can churn out quality posts and podcasts every day, or sometimes even a few times a day. Perhaps after a while you get into a rhythm and get better at grabbing hold of you thoughts and articulating them. However, the reason I only update once a week (aside from not having enough material) is that I don't want to get to the stage where I start interpreting my experiences in the context of the site, saying "oh, I'll write about this later on", and end up missing out on the event itself.

I'm often torn between the value of unadulterated experience and the value of articulating events in some form, specifically that of prose. I think writing about an experience can help you understand it and also provide others with ideas (what would I do without great fiction to fuel my mind?), however this can also sterilise the pure feeling, the essence of the experience itself, by pinning it down and weaving it into language you are limiting it and freezing it in time. Things are slightly different in the visual arts, and even poetry, as the idea can take on a new life of it's own in the art piece, allowing you to articulate your own experience and create a legion of new experiences for those who come into contact with your piece. Oh, to have the gift of a great artist…