Last evening, we went out for shopping and my mind was on blogging. I was looking at things around me a bit deeply.
I believed that I’d get some food for thought at the aquarium shop where we had gone to buy some stuff, but all I got was some food for our fishes.
I looked on the passing vehicles and billboards with renewed interest, to observe something out of ordinary, but everything was prim and proper like the life our relatives expect us to lead.
I observed the customers at a retail outlet to find some unique behaviour or mannerism but they were as boring as watching the paint dry.
When KG was sharing something interesting with me, my mind was working overtime on remembering something else which could be blog worthy and I invited an exasperated look from him.
After an hour of surfing on the net and looking for blogging ideas / daily prompt suggestions, nothing really caught my fancy.
The personal deadline I have set for posting each day’s blog post is of 12.01 am, which is just a few minutes away, and the words that can describe my current state of mind in panic stricken.
It’s the first day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. And I am clueless and lost.
Am I biting off more than I can chew?
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Hahahahah this is what blogging does to us… esp. when it is about challenge… more so if it is a daily challenge.
But then someone had rightly said…. we find inspiration from places where and when we least expect it. 😀
Good-luck!!
Oh yeah! Blogging with a deadline, makes us do all these things!
Thanks Preeti! Need all the good wishes for this one! 🙂
You are at it again Shilpa, I really enjoy your “straight from the heart” posts 🙂 Good luck for the challenge 🙂
Crazy is the word, right?! 😀
Thanks Reshma 🙂
LOL!!
I should take it up too!! I haven’t visited my blog in a month!! 🙁
With these daily challenges, I just might get the motivation to write more!!
Oh you must, Pixie! Hope you join us! Let’s re-create the May magic 😀
I’ve joined!! 😛
These days, strangely, topics come to me and I don’t go searching for them! 🙂
Destination Infinity
Wow! Lucky you! 🙂
lol!!! Happens with most of us!! When we are obsessed with blogging we check out everything with that perspecitve only 😀
P.S. With u taking up this challenge I am thinking of doing it too….but can i??
True… I was looking at everything and was contemplating if this or that is blog worthy!
Glad we are doing this challenge together!! Super like 🙂
Why do you worry Shilpa ?Even your post on “I have nothing to post” is superb 🙂
All the best !
Aah! I have to worry… coz this is the state on Day 1 of the challenge and there are 30 more days!! 😀 Thanks a lot, Seena ! You aren’t blogging!? Busy?!
I too get the writer’s block when there is a deadline that I have meet. Stop fretting and the words will start to flow. You have managed to make this post also so interesting. Just chill yaar 🙂
I know working with a deadline can be a daunting sometimes! 😛
Thanks V. I hope I manage to do this successfully! 🙂
You can always chew that much. You have always done so. 😀
Whenever I go for shopping , I also look curiously to the new products & the packaging & all. It like a play.
True, there is so much to absorb and observe!
I hope I am able to pull it off this time! 😀
So difficult to keep deadlines when it comes to creative pursuits, Shilpa!
True, while sometimes one may work best under pressure, and sometimes, it has the opposite effect! 😛
If one I’d determined ,one cuts through the deadlines.
You did.
Agree with that! Thanks 😛
Will be piece of cake… don’t worry! 😀
Thanks Kadambari! 🙂
Read more books, watch more movies, go on a hol.. u wil get enuf material for a month 😉
True… books are on, movies are at a lower level and holidays… can’t even think about them now! 😀
And when I am just done with a monthly challenge, am kinda feeling a void today. May be I should take up this one too?:P
I wish you had joined us too! 🙂
And that panic itself transforms to a post. Isn’t that awesome? 🙂
😛 Cant write gibberish posts everyday! looking for some serious inspiration! 😀
Lol, Shipa, you just described what i did yesterday… and for this very same challenge.
But don’t worry. This will be a piece of cake 😉
Aah! You too, Bhavya!! I know, this might be the initial hiccups… I am sure we will do it! 🙂
you are the champion of every day blogging….!! and my first post is dedicated to u! *hugs*
Awww!! 😛 Thank you so much S for joining in! 🙂
It happens to all of us! But worry not, you successfully managed one day. Now only 30 are left. 🙂
LOL 😀 Yes, only 30 days!! 😀
Wow! and see how you managed to make a post on your search . Keep going……
Thanks a lot, Asha. 🙂
If jitters can lead to such a jewel, you can relax. Shilpa, you are worrying for nothing. Looking forward to the adventure again.
Cynthia!! I know you are making fun!! 😀 Jewels are what you churn out! 🙂
When you dont have anything to write..you wrote such interesting post..so dont worry you can write about anything and everything anyway 🙂
BTW I have joined the challenge too 🙂
Thanks Rashmi! Glad that you have joined the fun of everyday blogging too! 🙂
loved your first entry in UBC… hope to read your daily dose here 🙂
Thanks Apala! And welcome to this blog! 🙂
Ha ha sometimes you can just gulp down, without chewing. And I am confident you are quite prolific with your ideas. You will come up with things like ’10 reasons why I did not find any interesting topic to write about’ 😉
Good Luck!
LOL 😀 Yes, one can gulp too!
You know me too well… see tomorrow’s post! 😀
🙂 And voila! You have a post! I love how everything we look at, looks like a topic! 😀
You’re going to be better than fine!
Hope this Voila works on rest of the 30 days too! 😀
Thank you so much Vidya 🙂
The part where your mind wanders looking for inspiration I can so relate to! Glad you’re in. You can do it – you’re a whiz! 🙂
Yes, with your support and push, we all can do it! 🙂
Thks Corinne for everything 🙂
You sure can do it. I know that…and I am so looking forward to reading more from your each day of this month! 🙂
Good luck!
Thank you, Kajal! Looking forward to read more from you too! 🙂
I very well understand your position. If we take blogging seriously, whatever we see or whatever we observe, our mind thinks of how can we write a blog on this. When on vacation, never listen to the family. Mind is on which photo will look good on the blog. I wanted to be out of that thought. That is why in 2011, I stopped blogging. Resumed in 2012. When I stopped blogging, I was able to enjoy more.
Good luck with your Ultimate Blog Challenge.
ur posts are a great read, u cant find what to write and ur clueless and lost thougts have begin to pour on screen and you simply wrote good post. thats so nice of you. u really inspire me to write more. keep blogging I look forward to read everyday, wish i would have also taken this challenge may be i would have tried to atleast. i always get clueless and leave it untouched but see u wrote that too WOW!!!! keep thinking and blogging.