I am an info product junkie.

Now I’ve done it. I’ve gone and signed up for another info product I can’t afford. It’s not like I’m suddenly going to break through this writer’s block thing and suddenly become prolific just by adding more pressure, but I did it anyway.

Plus, I was doing the numbers. @JonMorrow, who’s running the course on guest blogging, is ‘limiting’ the number of students [‘apprentices’ as he calls us] to 250. And he’s recommending that we write 1 guest post per week. If we all do that, you’re looking at 250 guest posts per WEEK looking for a home on the A-list blogs. Are there even 250 A-list blogs? Well, I guess we’re all supposed to find the A-listers in our niches, and hopefully Jon will tell us how to do that.

It starts next week, so I have a little time to work on the writing and the resistance. And YOU, dear reader, have time to get ready for the onslaught of guest posts all over the blogosphere!

Oh, and speaking of pressure — I ordered a video camera from Amazon that I can’t afford either, so I can record the new voice coaching product I’m working on, because the screencast I made sucked and the Powerpoint presentation I was trying to learn how to create in its place just wasn’t happening.

Not that I know much about video, but I do know how to turn a camera on and talk. And maybe I can do Speak Clearly Online as a vlog instead of a blog — gotta think about that. Maybe a mix of both.

@ElizabethPW wrote awhile back that she started vlogging last year to break through her writer’s block when she wasn’t able to write in her true voice. She’s a lawyer, and she couldn’t stop writing like one. That may be part of my problem too — not the lawyer part, but the feeling that I can’t write unless I write perfectly. And of course, I can’t. No one can.

So I’m going to start doing videos, at least for Speak Clearly Online, and I may try it on the Flake too.

Anyway, the camera also comes next week, so I need to have everything ready to record when it comes. That means:

• Have some kind of decent backdrop [curtain?] behind me that looks nice and hides this ugly apartment. Or turn the desk around so my back is to the wall. And hang a picture, fercrissakes.
• Maybe get my hair cut in a pixie like Dame Judy Dench up there. [FYI, I wore my hair like that for years and loved it, but decided to grow it long a few years ago, just for fun. The fun has faded.]
• Wear something colorful — purple shirt or red sweater? Everything else I have is either black, white or grey!
• Hang blankets over windows/doors to muffle the constant racket from the car wash next door.
• Turn off fans/AC. [And pray the heat that’s melting the rest of the country doesn’t take over San Diego by the time the camera gets here.]

Stay tuned!