TWKM Blog

Within the next few weeks you will have access to new features on your iGoogle Gadget. I’m very excited about these new additions as they are some features that have been requested by you, the users of the gadget.

In addition to the Keyword and Advanced search functionalities, you will soon be able to get the Verse of The Day and a Bible Reading schedule within the gadget.

These changes will be visible as soon as the gadget is updated. Stay tuned for more information.

View the BibleGateway iGoogle Gadget information page to learn more about the gadget.

Update: You can get a sneak peek at the functionality now by clicking the ‘Show test functionalities?’ option under the gadget settings. This will give you access to the testing version which includes the new verse of the day and bible reading plans. Please note that this is currently being tested and the gadget may not function properly with this setting enabled.

Here is the problem. I am writing on average 1 post a month lately. Not quite what I had in mind when I started this blog thing.

I am realizing that this problem stems from a few subtle points:

• I’m not sure what I want the blog to be about, as a whole
• When I feel like writing, I don’t know what to write about
• When I write something, it doesn’t seem good enough

Basically, I’ve lost the plot. When I started blogging seriously here at TWKM I had only one goal; to practice writing. But something terrible happened. Some of my writing was well-received and it excited me that people thought I had something to offer.

Why is this terrible?

I began writing for those people that thought I had something to offer and I felt compelled to write for them, and if I didn’t think it had anything to offer to them it died in the Drafts folder. I was no longer writing for myself and no longer setting out to pursue the whole reason I started this blog. To practice my damn writing.

I lost the point and I lost the plot. I lost my voice and I tried to put a label on the blog, a label I didn’t fit so by osmosis a label the blog couldn’t fit. I became a perfectionist, trying to make something perfect that was never meant to be perfect.

From now on I’m going to unapologetically pursue writing, without a clearly defined niche, without a clearly defined revenue model, without 99% of the things that the blog consultants say I need. I’m going to write without the filter and I’m going to throw up garbage sometimes — there’s your fair warning. There is no room for fear of criticism here.

I’m back…