Sometimes it’s not the writing. It’s what to write about. I’m sure there’s supposed to be a goal when I sit down in front of a blank document. An ambition to fill it with prose which will leave any eventual readers interested stimulated and keen to come back for more. But it’s easier said (or in this case written) than done.
My issue often is, as much as I want to populate this blog with regular posts. Be one of those people popping into your inbox daily. I have great difficulty deciding what they should be about.
I have wondered if this stems from me calling the blog David In The Kitchen, have I tied myself into always having to write about food? But I don’t think that’s it. Let’s face it, many writers sit at their kitchen table and produce pieces about any subject you care to mention.
Then I worried that what I might want to write about isn’t going to interest anyone. Might seem of no significance and leave people asking ‘why does he think I’d want to know this’.
Pondering these problems over the last few days, and determined to be here more in 2023, I’m hoping I may have found the answer.
Trawling through the many and various ‘how to improve yourself’ articles which fill the papers at this time of year, I found one about writing. In particular the problem of gaining inspiration. The answer they suggested is to sit down daily and just write. Don’t worry about what it is, and don’t edit as you go. just write and see what comes out in the end. The proverbial ‘just go with the flow’.
So that’s what I’ve done. I couldn’t think of what to write about. So that’s what I’ve written about.
I did do it at the kitchen table though.
David in the kitchen. 
The author Julia Cameron wrote a guide to writing and in it, she wrote about The Morning Pages. The idea is that every morning – early before the world gets too involved- one writes three pages in a journal. Just sit down and start writing (as you did here). I have been doing this exercise for years and I surprise myself at how often the casual thoughts that I out down on paper at 5:00 AM later gave me ideas that morphed into a full and cohesive blog post.
I always enjoy reading what you write. You have knowledge, interesting ideas ( as is evidenced by all those little Twitter things you participate in), and the skills necessary to be a captivating author. I suspect much of what you think and then choose to put into a blog post would be interesting to most readers.
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