Tuesday, February 01, 2011

To Write, or To Be Social

I was going over the archives from this blog, and my previous "home" blog and I noticed that my most prevalent posts were usually about, well writing or updating the blog again. Well to the observant out there, I'm sure there is a collective... DUH, if you don't update that often, when you do it's going to be about updating, or trying to write again.

To try to stave off a deja vu type of post, I decided to do a little self examination for why, or more when does this burst of creativity usually occur? The answer? When I'm more social, I write more.

In personality terms I'm considered a borderline introvert and extrovert. Any test I've partaken of, always put smack dab on the border between being social, and being, well not. In other words, sometimes I'm social and sometimes I'm not. The frequency of which appears to be fairly well balanced, to such a degree that I can't be pigeonholed one way or the other.

I then noticed that when I slide further in to a social state, I want to write more. That is, I want to express myself in more forms then previous. When I slide back to a non-social state, I can still be creative, but I usually output my expressive nature through other non-thought laden means.

Anyways, I thought it was just an interesting observation. Now that I'm aware of it, maybe I can figure out how to bank some of this output, or at least provoke it more often.