Permission to be Boring

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When I started the collections, I was super excited and couldn't see this rather predictable slump coming. On many days, I feel like I don't have anything interesting to contribute. Today, for example, I feel like a dilettante--there are no consequences for my success, so really I'm just dabbling in writing, surely. Then I say, well, if I don't have anything interesting to contribute, then I'm just making noise, and the internet already has quite a lot of that, so what's the point? And I don't write. But then I feel like the next post should be something better, something more amazing that would be worth the wait (as if people are waiting for these). Then I wrack my brain trying to come up with something amazing, and of course, I don't have it; I don't have anything interesting to contribute, remember? And so it transpires that I don't write for days on end. The writing prompts always say, "Don't worry about quality, don't worry about not making sense — just write." But they never say, "Don't worry about being boring." The assumption is that our minds are fascinating if we just let them roam. But I wonder if that's true.