Righting Problems | Hour Blog

2014/02/03 in Journal

My first English teacher in college hated the idea of timed writing. “Alex, at no point in your entire life will you be asked to write a fully-formed essay in an hour. Ridiculous.” I guess he was right. At the time, I certainly thought he was right. No one liked sweating through midterms trying to string together a coherent five-part essay under threat and low on time. The clock made the artistic process a hectic sprint. I hated it. And I’m all for sprinting.

I love writing. I really do. Anyone who has even the faintest familiarity with my Facebook wall is only too aware of my fondness for it. And I’ve wanted to take blogging seriously for years. But every time I start I always get bogged down in the vast amounts time it takes to write. My first year in China I had a blog. “To the East.” I intended to write an entry every two weeks—or every month. Look, I’m not sure which, but it doesn’t really matter because I didn’t do either. What initially were short posts ballooned into chapter-length odysseys, and what started as a project to keep friends and family updated began to look more like a master’s thesis. I eventually finished out the year with nine, but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth.

Since then I’ve been trying to devise a method that works for me, and I think I’ve stumbled upon one.

Hour Blog. That’s what I’m calling it. Two times a week—Thursday and Sunday—I’m going to give myself one hour to write about whatever it is that’s been rattling around my head for the

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past couple days. Anything from tennis to taxes, Bitcoin to Breaking Bad, could find its way into my thoughts and onto the page. This probably doesn’t sound all that promising, and it’ll most likely crash and burn. But if it does, I won’t be too bothered. I’ll just toss the idea into the ever-growing pile of stuff my college teachers warned me about but I ignored and found out they were right.

You only really know if you try.

If the overconfident flash speculations of a manic expatriate would-be philosopher are just what you’ve been missing in your life, then congratulations, you’ve found the right place.

This is the first one.