After being at this blogging thing for a couple of years, I have a few notes to make. First, a lot of people do not seem to keep at it for more than a year or two. I am not sure if they just run out of things to say or if they run out of time. For example, a lot of bloggers seem to be recently out of relationships or doing something similarly exciting, giving them frequent things to write about. Ahhh , drama. Others are just in college or not working or doing something that gives them a decent amount of time in which to stare into the misty haze of their brains and pluck something entertaining out and set it into words.
In either event, most of the bloggers, if not all of the bloggers, I was reading when I started are now gone (it's really easy to become old as a blogger), with the notable exceptions of Stephanie Klein and Chris Diclerico. The former being a writer, I sort of would expect her to continue blogging. Not that I have any real basis for this assumption; lots of authors do not maintain blogs, but I just sort of take it for granted that she will. Until she finally has a nervous break down and cannot take all the crap anymore and calls it quits. Chris is more a finder of stuff he finds cool and throwing it up there, which I feel, makes the blogging process somewhat easier for him, but it is still cool to see a familiar face in my rss feeds still updating.
Still, there are some cool fucking people blogging. For example, through blogging, I got to ask a former stripper tons of stupid questions I had always wanted to ask a stripper, and given that I have never even been to a strip club, I probably would have had to wait a lot longer to ask any of these questions without this thing we call Internet and these things we call blogs. Today, this was reaffirmed when I found the blog of a former circus performer. Oh, yes, you heard me correctly, a fucking circus performer, like on a flying trapeze and shit. How unbelievably cool is that? I just find that to be so awesome. Almost as cool as the day I found out (and then proceeded to forget over and over again as though I am some eighty year old suffering from Alzheimer's) Kevin Smith has a blog.
I always wonder if I am doing my blog correctly - whether I am writing blog-worthy items or things others would find interesting, or even things I find interesting. Sometimes I write serious posts about things I feel uniquely capable of speaking about or think I can offer a perspective that has not been expressed fifty-million times by other bloggers and random pundits out there, and sometimes I just write random fiction that some people seem to really enjoy but that others seem to lack any interest in whatsoever. To an extent, though, I always feel that if I am writing anything, it is probably better than not writing at all. It keeps the cobwebs from getting too thick, but some days I really wish it all would flow as well as it used to. Although, I am still not sure if it was ever *that* easy. Maybe blogging is easier when your life isn't - when things in your life are dramatic, you have a reality show to set down into words.
Recently, Janet said that I should write more about the past and the future. I am not sure if she meant I should start writing about dinosaurs and spaceships, but it sounded definitely interesting and broad.
In either event, most of the bloggers, if not all of the bloggers, I was reading when I started are now gone (it's really easy to become old as a blogger), with the notable exceptions of Stephanie Klein and Chris Diclerico. The former being a writer, I sort of would expect her to continue blogging. Not that I have any real basis for this assumption; lots of authors do not maintain blogs, but I just sort of take it for granted that she will. Until she finally has a nervous break down and cannot take all the crap anymore and calls it quits. Chris is more a finder of stuff he finds cool and throwing it up there, which I feel, makes the blogging process somewhat easier for him, but it is still cool to see a familiar face in my rss feeds still updating.
Still, there are some cool fucking people blogging. For example, through blogging, I got to ask a former stripper tons of stupid questions I had always wanted to ask a stripper, and given that I have never even been to a strip club, I probably would have had to wait a lot longer to ask any of these questions without this thing we call Internet and these things we call blogs. Today, this was reaffirmed when I found the blog of a former circus performer. Oh, yes, you heard me correctly, a fucking circus performer, like on a flying trapeze and shit. How unbelievably cool is that? I just find that to be so awesome. Almost as cool as the day I found out (and then proceeded to forget over and over again as though I am some eighty year old suffering from Alzheimer's) Kevin Smith has a blog.
I always wonder if I am doing my blog correctly - whether I am writing blog-worthy items or things others would find interesting, or even things I find interesting. Sometimes I write serious posts about things I feel uniquely capable of speaking about or think I can offer a perspective that has not been expressed fifty-million times by other bloggers and random pundits out there, and sometimes I just write random fiction that some people seem to really enjoy but that others seem to lack any interest in whatsoever. To an extent, though, I always feel that if I am writing anything, it is probably better than not writing at all. It keeps the cobwebs from getting too thick, but some days I really wish it all would flow as well as it used to. Although, I am still not sure if it was ever *that* easy. Maybe blogging is easier when your life isn't - when things in your life are dramatic, you have a reality show to set down into words.
Recently, Janet said that I should write more about the past and the future. I am not sure if she meant I should start writing about dinosaurs and spaceships, but it sounded definitely interesting and broad.
4 comments:
Please start writing about dinosaurs. Or, how about dinosaurs IN spaceships?
Thanks for the blog shout out (and the comments)! I really appreciate it! I'll have to start writing more about my circus days to continue being of interest.
I know what you mean about bloggers starting and then stopping. I really think most people start due to a break up. They need somewhere to vent. Once a new person comes along, the blog isn't of interest anymore. Admittedly, I started my current blog due to that, but that was only because I had to get away from my previous one. I needed a change.
Anyway, don't worry about what your blog is themed around. Writing is the important part, right?
(Um, if you haven't noticed, I'm slightly wordy. Oops.)
Or spaceships in dinosaurs?
It's good to have words. I often feel like I am lacking them. Clearly, I now know where they went. ;-)
I didn't want to narrow the topic too too. That might be uncomfortable. Besides, I really don't hear enough about your past here. I'm really, kind of curious.
Of course you're blogging correctly. Is ThErE a WrOnG wAy tO BlOg? Haha, that was a joke there. Just keep at it. I'm a five-year blogger, and keeping at it for your own sake is what counts. Don't you like to read your archives and see how you've grown and changed? I sure do.
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