By: Hogga
For weeks I have been getting emails, Tweets, Skype and Facebook messages from people asking:
Where have you been?
Why haven’t you updated your blog?
Are you alive? Seriously, is everything okay?
Yes, I’m alive. My liver might have taken a bit of a beating, but I’m still kickin it, hommies. I know I’m supposed to be updating you on my travels and my life (consistently) but I was having too much fun and couldn’t be bothered.
Secondly, every time I sit down to work, I don’t know what to write. Writers block, laziness and anxiety have made me an anti-travel writer.
It’s been like a disease eating away at the good part of my liver. I have stories. Things have happened. I’ve seen some cool shit, met some cool people and adventured across Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but I don’t know what to tell you about it.
I start writing and half way into the first paragraph I stop and realize, how I’m going to utterly bore you with my story. The best I’ve come up with in the past 2 weeks is:
“I went to some sort of horse riding and jeep competition. Don’t ask me to explain what it was, I have no fucking clue. It took forever to get to the ranch where the festivities were taking place because of the shit loads of people on their horses.
I thought it was because there were so many horses and people are stupid, but it turns out there was a ‘horse jam’ because of a truck giving out free beers. So really this 5 minute drive took 45 minutes because of all the drunks on horses.”
So that’s why I haven’t been around. I have lost my mojo in a gutter outside my favorite bar in Granada, Nicaragua and it’s taking some time to get it back.
24 Comments
Hogga, you are a frickin’ genius. Tell that writer’s block I said, “GO AWAY!”
HAHA. Awww the fact that you think I am makes me want to write!
Well put. That’s pretty much regular non-blog Hogga too…
I should blog about not blogging more often!
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Haha – me too! Have been really busy with a lot of other things and only get to blogging once a week. No one is asking after us, though =(
I think I Went something like 3 weeks at one point in Central America. At least you’re keeping up to once a week.
The point of travel is to…TRAVEL. Not be behind a computer 24/7 – that is the exact opposite of what you should be doing/enjoying/learning/exploring. I can’t understand travel bloggers who are constantly updating anything and everything on their site, Facebook, Twitter, etc…I can’t imagine they’re really taking in a place if they’re constantly thinking about what they ‘have’ to do online. I know I wouldn’t be and refuse to get sucked into to thinking I need to keep up with all that. Now get offline and go have some more fun…
Damn girl. I like the cut of your jib!
Don’t worry about it yo. Travel is about enjoying the offline world.
Yeah I think next trip I will just schedule everything to continue online while I have fun!
I’ve also been having the worst case of writer’s block – glad to know I’m not alone!
glad I’m not alone now either! I don’t know how people can update so often!?
Oh no! I need to hear this story.
What if you just tell the stories by video? Maybe easier than to write? I would like the scene to be at a bar with the camera across from you as if you’re telling me a story at the bar.
OR…I could just film you telling me all these stories in Toronto.
Okay I’ll stop being bossy.
hahaha.. hummm I need a camera first.
That’s okay, I probably wouldn’t do a lot of shit if you weren’t bossy.
Weirdly, my recent vacation was the only time I’ve had to START writing again! I had been too busy to blog in ages….
The blogsphere has missed you!
Drunk horse riders, now THAT’S a story!
I’m glad to know that you’re alive and kicking. Just stay away from the kicking end of those drunk horses.
Yeah… weird thing is, when we got to the ranch, there weren’t any horses anymore? I don’t know where they all went. Maybe a drunk horsing accident?
Thank you for this! For the past month I’ve started and stopped oodles of blog posts that will never see the light of day. Enjoy Central America and have an Imperial for me. Cheers!
I would have had 20 for you, but I’m back in Canada now! haha
I was blocked for 2 months. Sometimes writing can get in the way. Sometimes I do things thinking about writing about ’em. Aint healthy. I enjoy Niaragua, by the way.
Ahhhh, misery loves company. Thanks for writing this. I’m going through a bit of blogstipation right now myself (word invention credit goes to Torre de Roche over at Fearful Adventurer).