I want to write a post about my lack of motivation for writing these past few months.  As you can see, a post on Save the Lobsters is a rarity these days.  For the past week or so I have been trying to pin point the reasons so that I can work on changing it, and I have come up with 2 explanations so far…explanations mind you, not excuses.

1.)  I’m sure I am not the only one who has days where you leave the office at 5 and can’t put your finger on exactly what you did all day.  I sat at a computer, in a cubicle, in an office, and that’s about all I know.  I find days like these (especially when they are not isolated incidents) even more draining than days where I’ve been busy or felt that I made a contribution to something.   By the time I’m home at 5:30, if nothing is planned, I make an easy dinner, do a little picking up around the apartment, and then my motivation is completely gone.  I turn on the tv and knit or do a little reading for a few hours and then I’m ready for bed – dreading the routine that I’ll start all over again the next day.  How do I find motivation and stimulation in the evenings to drive me to write?

Questions: What do you do when you get home from work that gives you the motivation to accomplish something like writing a blog post?  Do you set aside certain nights of the week where you promise yourself you’ll write?  Is there a routine that you do to stimulate your mind after 8+ hours of an idle brain?  I’m willing to try suggestions to pull my mind out of this post-5 funk.

2.)  The second explanation I have come up with is in terms of content.  With a pretty routine schedule both at work and personally, I often feel that my stories or insight are simply not interesting enough for anyone to want to read.  I’ll think of a vague topic idea during the day, but by the time I am home and pulling out the laptop I have talked myself out of the idea and I end up not posting at all!

Questions:  Do you ever have these thoughts that your ideas are too mundane or routine to blog about?  If so, what pushes you to post anyway?  How do you spin your routines so that others are interested to read?  Or is it simply by being different from their routines that makes blogging compelling?

I’m treating this like a mini-therapy session.  Your thoughts, suggestions, and stories are more than welcome!