Ok before I get really excited - are the stats playing up? Or has this site suddenly been visited by lots of spankos and/or spanko-curious? I suddenly appear to be very well-visited by eager page-turners...
p.s. I need a smiley for happily confused!

Not sure if I've already blogged on this, or just added comments when others have posted - Sometimes the 'senior moments' just join up... so where was I...? Aaah, yesssss....displacement activity...

As others have pondered - Is blogging displacement from 'real' writing? It's good practice and I love the interactivity of the blog, but is it stopping me from getting on with my story writing?

Having posted a piece from one of my unfinished stories I am reminded of how long it is since I've done any of my other writing. It may be that if I wasn't blogging I wouldn't be concentrating on the erotic writing either. I have my paid work, family, home and my relationship and all the other bits of life to concentrate on. And having written a fair amount that remains unpublished - a book of 'straight' short stories, two book's worth of spanking stories and more spanking experience, fact and fiction for my current project - there may be good reason why my stories languish, while I surf and post bits here.

I'm also quite a 'home body' and enjoy being at home alone when not with my Cariad. The soap element of blogging and connecting with others is fun as well.

Some of my started stories are merely aide memoires based on fantasies and passing thoughts that I've started as stories so I won't forget them. I know where they're all going, even if I don't yet know some detail - It's just getting around to writing the things...
So am I practicing displacement as I sit here tapping, or keeping my hand in?

I'm not a natural scribbler - No history of always having a notebook or a trail of juvenilia - I just thought if I wanted to have a go at creative writing I should be able to do so, and found I could. I've always been able to write stuff for work and write letters when in the mood and I love words and language.

Blogging is such a fun thing to do, when in the mood - I described it recently as being columnists in our own little world. You write what you fancy, people read you and sometimes you get feedback - The joys of cyber!

So am I displacing? Who knows? What about you? I am interested in the people who have chosen to stop blogging on grounds of getting on with other stuff, and wonder if those wishing to concentrate on other writing have managed to do so.

I would be interested in others' thoughts on this.