Blogger's block

Some people/companies are very successful bloggers. Some get you hooked and then abandon you to weeks of clicking forlornly on their site until you really believe that they aren't coming back (Susan Hill's blog was one in case).

Some homebloggers update you with endless details/photos of their children and make you feel inadequate that you are not able to do the same.

Some bloggers relive their love lives (usually unsuccessful) in such detail that you wonder they are not using the blog as a notepad for their next novel.

Some bloggers moan about their field without offering many solutions. Unfortunately this is the camp I fall into. Mind you, a friend recently gave me a keyring with Caroline on it listing the qualities that the name embodies. I was most pleased to see "makes positive out of negative".

This is always the way I have operated. I look at all the downsides of a project and then try to figure out a positive solution. But it doesn't put me in a good light. I end up sounding like a lugubrious Clement Freud instead of a happy positive Davina McCall.

Still, one can't change one's nature and I have strayed from my blogpoint.

Some bloggers have a hook on which to hang their outlook. It might be spreading the word about books they have read; it might be interviewing authors to illuminate ways into publishing.

It is time to get out of my negative groove and find me a hook. As a publisher of languages, I am inclined to ramble down some word paths and see where they take me. I'll probably focus on Italian and I hope my visitors want to join me.