Step 1. Sit down to write a blog post.
Step 2. Be consumed by thoughts and anxiety. Shove them aside with some trusty procrastination!
Step 3. Catch up on all your favorite bloggers and Youtubers! There are definitely enough great posts to keep you at this for a couple hours! Read Ali’s spot on “No Explanation Necessary“, nodding your head the whole way through. Next, distract yourself with glorious retail therapy from Emma’s “My 10 Summer Essentials“. Then enjoy some vicarious NYC love with Tip and JAM’s The Bad Portrait Artist. When you watch Karen Murray’s latest vlog on her Diary of a Failing Actress/Human Being Youtube channel, your heart will reach out to her and her incredible vulnerability. And BOOM you remember all your own shit too!
Step 4. Fuck. You just spent over 2 hours not writing a single word. Fuck. Your internet binge didn’t even give you any good ideas. Fuck.
Step 5. Think of silly fluff pieces you could write: “The Tell Tale Signs of a New York City Tourist” or “7 Essential Things to Pack for Your NYC Vacation!”.
Step 6. Commit to one: “7 Essentials to Pack for Your NYC Vacation”. Great! You got this!
Step 7. Brainstorm a funny, informative listicle!
Step 8: ….
Step 9. Think about all the other things on your mind instead. You kinda wish you could blog about them… You also know that is positively ill advised…
Step 10. Tell you brain to STFU and stay on task!! Packing!! Essentials!!
Step 11. Hand sanitizer and comfortable shoes. That’s literally all you come up with. Two bullshit, obvious things does not make a blog post. Fuck.
Step 12. Start to cry. A creative block on top of all your emotions and general feeling of shittiness is just too much!
Step 13. You need this catharsis. Go for it.
Step 14. Cry harder at the realization that you don’t fucking have time for this right now! You should be finishing a blog post! You committed to blogging everyday, this is important to you!
Step 15. Call your best friend and cry all the things to her that you are feeling right now. She’s a good listener, really the best. She’s in Germany so she’s eating breakfast while you’re spilling and wishing you could just go to sleep. That would probably make you feel so, so much better, but FUCK you HAVE to blog!!
Step 16. Feel so much better after talking to your bestie. Ugh, friends are the best.
Step 17. Having talked it all out and gotten some things off your chest, you can finally sit down and write this blog post. Cap it off with a pretty picture from Randall’s Island:
I’m going through some stuff right now but no need to worry about me, I promise! Thanks for reading♥
You crack us up. Sitting here at LGA in one of the dreadful lines at 5:30am, I start laughing to myself, then have to share w/ Tip, then everyone looking, whos so happy this time of day standing in line…thanks for saving my morning.
Hope all is OK–just try not to put too much pressure on yourself, okay? You’re human! XO
Sending hugs your way, I hope all is ok. Don’t pressure yourself to blog every day! We love it, but we totally understand that you might not always be able to. I wish I was able to blog every day!
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I hope you’re OK. Sending you so much love from the UK. Don’t pressure yourself into writing as much if it’s a struggle – we love your writing but we want you to be happy and healthy first!