Mark Hewitt's Blog

On Friday I ended the run of my daily comedy blog Day of X. I had honestly hoped I'd keep going much longer - I was (initially) excited about the concept, and about trying a pure humour project for the first time (there have always been bits and pieces of comedy in my writing, but I've never just set out to just be funny).

But over time I just found boredom and lethargy setting in. I think it's partly my general state of mind at the moment; I've been going through a real period of depression and demotivation, mostly due to lack of money, being unable to get out and do all the stuff I want to do. I also set myself a pretty high bar of posting seven full and good-quality posts a week, which I think is hard for any comedy writer unless you're writing in a very short form.

I'm disappointed, of course, but it's been a great learning experience and provided a lot of fun and some work that I'm really proud of - I'm glad to have tried it. I won't be going back to the comedy format right now, but it way well be something I'll play with again in the future; maybe in a less challenging form.

Now I just have to decide what to do next. I have two web projects on the go for clients - one completely new site and one a minor overhaul - and as soon as those are out of the way I'm going to look at reworking Silverknife, which I think can be a lot better. At that time I'll be looking at my next web project, and a high probability is the reinvention of my cooking blog, which (as I mentioned when I put it to bed) I want to rework into something more distinct, with a stronger and more interesting concept.

I have some other ideas flying around, and some offline projects I want to look at again. Whatever happens, you should be seeing some new - and hopefully exciting - things on Silverknife in the next month or two.