So, fallen at the first hurdle. January 2nd came and went without even one entry. But to be fair it was Sunday, so that's probably some kind of excuse. And today was a bank holiday, so I was in church all day... right?
OK. While a lesser man would have considered their resolution to be broken by now, a text message from my blogging arch nemesis Emila Von Frauhausen has revealed that I am not alone in my quest for daily blogging. And since they have indicated that they are re-using old, already written (but previously unpublished) writings to fill their 'one a day' quota, it seems to me that if cheating is fair play, then a player be I. Wait, does that even make any sense?
If old writings can be repurposed then this is very good. (I'm sure I have some cringeworthy vintage material that I can dig up from my archives.) But in the meantime I have also decided that it is OK to write something retrospectively - for example, this entry being written late in the evening of January 3rd, and change the time on it so that it says January 2nd.
This way I am not exactly cheating - I am still filling my quota, just occasionally using 'IOUs' if something is not ready on time. Theoretically speaking this will allow me to reach December 31st 2011 and not have broken my resolution, even if I then have to spend the day writing a backlog of 360 entries all in one afternoon, like a kind of rolling stone that slowly gathers an unbearable weight of obligation when neglected.
I'm sure that would be only mildly more painful than pulling fantastic and genius copy out of nowhere one day at a time. Which, without really trying, I seem to have found myself having done. Oo, well done me. Two down, 363 to go.
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