52 Blog Posts That Never Came Into Existence

I recently opened the “unfinished drafts” section of my blog and discovered that I had 52 unfinished posts in various states of completion. Some of these resulted from dumping a quick idea using the WordPress app on my phone, little more than three of four words to be fleshed out later. Some are just a title, waiting for the post to arrive.

Some are near-complete or actually complete blog posts I never got around to posting, usually because they were a) incredibly negative, b) incredibly risky, or c) written during a week with a serious anxiety flare up and being ‘out in public’ with ideas wasn’t palatable to me.

I’ve logged all 52 titles here, from the evocative to the mundane, to give you a glimpse as a blog that might-have-been once upon a time. Reading them aloud makes for an oddly evocative prose poem, especially once you get to the last two entries.

UntitledShort Fiction Friday: The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don VashtaBook Recs: Profit FirstUntitledUntitledUntitledLinksUntitledThesis MonthThe Empathy Gap and Writers In NovemberUntitledThe Holy Trinity of Process Books for WritersUntitledThe SwitchHolding PatternsUntitled2018 Reading: My Favourite ReadsThe Uncool InfluencesUntitledEvery Book Has Three Stories Attached (or, How To Talk About Your Writing Without Boring People)UntitledI Just Watched Kenny Omega Save Ibushi, and It’s Making Me Think About StorytellingUntitledUntitledUntitledUntitledUntitledUntitledUntitledSMAX #175: No-One Can Stop A Gang Who Can FlyRUOK DayEnid Blyton PostWhat Could You Get Written By The End of 2018?When Is A Series Not A Series?UntitledHell Track Project Diary: Day Six (ish)Some Thoughts On Masters Of The UniverseHow To Use The Philosophy Of Circuit Training To Level Up Your WritingAsk Not What Your Readers Can Do For YouUntitledUntitledUntitledThe World Doesn’t Want You To WriteThings You Should Be Going To In June/July If You’re In Brisbane And Into Spec FicThe World Doesn’t Want You To ReadUntitledUntitledUntitledPutting Together A Monthly PlanUntitledYour Book Is Dead. Move On.I Am Surprised When Someone Reads My Work

Three unifinished drafts are from 2016, 13 from 2917, 13 from 2018, 15 from 2019, 7 from 2020, and one from 2021. My plan for the rest of week is to go through and rescue what needs rescuing, kill what needs killing, and clear the space for future work.