The Book Tower

To start with, don’t build your hopes up. This isn’t it. I don’t think this is the perfect post. But one of the reasons I keep a blog (‘keep a blog’ – what an odd term, that’s a bit like saying ‘I take a drink’ – anyway…) is the thrill of the perfect post. Or at least what you think might be. Or could be.

Perfect Post scenarios. Do you sometimes:

Write a post very quickly and suddenly. Very fluidly. You may be on your way out of the house, suddenly think of something and then bash out a post that you’re quite proud of and publish it there and then. You may still have your car keys in your hand, or your brolly under your arm. You stride out into the street beaming. I liken it to John Lennon thinking up the song ‘Instant Karma’ all in a day, recording it and then releasing it the next day.

Ummm…well…not quite on the same level perhaps.

Okay. Do you read a post on someone else’s blog which inspires you to write your own post, perhaps as a direct answer to their post or maybe just to try to write something better. Or what you might think is better. Whatever it is, you are inspired suddenly by another blogger. Someone else’s creative process gets your own juices going. I liken it to when The Beach Boys heard Revolver and came up with Pet Sounds and then The Beatles came back with Sgt Pepper to top that.

Ohhhh…well…not quite the same thing perhaps.

What about this one. You write a post modestly and publish it. It’s a fair post and you’re not expecting much but later you receive one or two comments which means that people are reading your posts, and at a later date you might go back and re-read the post and think “hey, that’s a good post, and that’s also a bit like when The Beatles…” and then stop yourself. Because you will never write or read the perfect post. We will all go on blogging forever. And that is why you are a blogger.

In the words of the late, great Samuel Beckett:

you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

Feel free to misuse any other great literary quotations…