Let’s Talk About | The Bloid

Last updated on 29 July 2020

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Occasionally I will be minding my own business, getting on with day-to-day life when boom! An explosion of ideas erupts in my brain and I need to get them out onto paper or onto a document stat. And if I don’t, then often they’re lost to the Bloid. You know the Bloid. That blogging void which ideas rapidly get sucked into when they’re not acted upon at their moment of creation. That space of nothing, where anything can be sucked, but nothing can be retained.

Save, perhaps, those strong ideas, clinging onto the edge of the world, like they know they’re meant for something more. Perhaps those are the ideas are actually worth writing about.

I’ve talked about ways you can generate blog posts before, but what happens when you get too many? What happens when they all come at once and you scramble for something – anything – in which to record said ideas…but alas. Some of them slip through, gone forever. Do you stretch your grey matter into trying to remember? Or do you just let them float on, coming to the understanding and the acceptance that they were not meant to be?

Me? I do both. Often I have thoughts about a post in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning, and it’s so strong and I’m so convinced it needs to be written down that I know that I won’t forget it and that it can in fact wait. Ha.Ha. Yeah right. Gone. Gone-burgers.

If, later on, I can remember the theme of it, or I remember that it was to do with such-and-such, then I’ll write whatever comes into my brain on a bit of paper and stick it right in front of my computer, where I can always see it. That way, if I’m doing something else and I see it, it might just evolve into the idea that I started with, or at least something similar.

Some ideas, though, I have to just accept that they will no longer be seen again. The Bloid has sucked them in. It’s a strange, harsh and cruel environment, and is not going to return them.

But you know what? I think that that’s okay. Occasionally one is at a total mind blank as to what to write – whether that be for blogging, or for schoolwork, essays or assignments, or even things like NaNoWriMo -, and other times one can have too many ideas it can become overwhelming. Letting some of these things fly by might be a good thing. Who knows. Well, the Bloid knows, but we know that guy well now and know that it’ll torment us as long as we try and remember the ideas we fed it.

Do you lose ideas to the Bloid? Does it drain most of your ideas?

Can you ever grab hold of those ones on the edge and bring them back to the land of the living ideas?