When are you going to finish that post?

Wow...now I'm nagging myself! Never thought I'd get to that point. But there may be a good reason for it. In the course of looking through my index of posts, I see a bunch that are in draft mode. For those not familiar with computer programs, some of them allow you to save unfinished work if you find that you need more time to work on it, fine tune it, etc. before you print or publish it. Some of those programs call that uncertain state of limbo "draft mode." The term makes sense if you stop and think about it.

I've noted that there are so many things that I want or need to write about, and I do get the post started. But for whatever reason, I don't get around to finishing those posts and publishing them for you to read to help you get to sleep. Right now I have about a half-dozen posts (or thereabout) that are sitting in draft mode. Why don't I/can't I get them done? That's kind of an easy one, really. I get an idea, start the post, then just sort of run out of steam. Those posts sounded like a great idea, but once I got them started and looked over what I'd written, they didn't seem like such great posts anymore. Or I'd had a change of heart. Or something I thought was hilarious...wasn't.

Sometimes, people go through their cars, closets, dressers, garages, junk drawers, etc. and finally throw away stuff that they've held onto for years. I don't delete unpublished posts. They stick around for a long time. But there were a couple that I left alone for awhile, then got a spark of inspiration and opened them later, getting them finished with much better content than if I had finished them initially. Sometimes a little extra thinking makes a post better.

But there are posts that are best left unfinished for a variety of excuses reasons. "Funny post...no, actually it wasn't." "There's so much I can write about this!" [sits down to write a new post and gets three whole sentences done] "Wow! I'm stuck and haven't written enough." "Hmmm...maybe I'd better not write about this. I don't want to hurt or offend anyone." And so on, so forth.

Sooner or later, all of the unfinished posts will get done. My blog is my story. Leaving out parts is like that part of me didn't or doesn't exist. I can't have that, can I?