Metablog, in which I blog about blogging
I amuse people and so it has been suggested that I blog.
I used to use this space as an actual blog and not just as a dumping ground for quizzes and tweets. Maybe I will again. I've been combing through my archive and there is plenty there to grow on. There is also plenty of cleanup.
I know I'll want to dump internet memes, quiz results and the blank/useless posts that are the result of broken links to photos I can't remember.
I'll want to delete certain posts that trumpet an immature mindset. I'd actually prefer to leave them as evidence that, contrary to popular belief, people do change. However, "I wrote that ten years ago" has never been an easily-swallowed excuse when someone reads something monumentally stupid for the first time. It's new to them.
I am not going to delete any posts relating to past acquaintances, friends or lovers. As much as I would like to forget much of the past, it's still there. Maybe someone can glean insight from it.
I don't want to be a well-known blogger, but I want to be compelling enough that more than six or eight people bother to drop in. I think of the bloggers I follow - Amy Alkon and Luke Ford are at the top of the list. Their styles and subject matter are very different from one another. Amy Alkon (www.advicegoddess.com) writes matter-of-factly, boldly and with a definitive stong yet distinctly feminine voice. Luke Ford (www.lukeford.net) is at times wistful, other times egotistical, often with a veneer of self-confidence that's pretty obviously complete bullshit. They don't just regurgitate the news of the day (although Alkon does blog on, among other things, current events). Ford is all over the place - he discusses his childhood, his conversion to and practice of Orthodox Judaism, the trials and tribulations of dating in Los Angeles, and when we the readers are lucky he shares his writing. Alkon's not quite in the 'blog about whatever' category. Manners, travel, and her gleeful delight in the fact that she never lays down and takes it from anyone are regular topics. I don't want to be Luke Ford and I'll never be Amy Alkon, but I hope at least that what I have to say, someone wants to hear.
I used to use this space as an actual blog and not just as a dumping ground for quizzes and tweets. Maybe I will again. I've been combing through my archive and there is plenty there to grow on. There is also plenty of cleanup.
I know I'll want to dump internet memes, quiz results and the blank/useless posts that are the result of broken links to photos I can't remember.
I'll want to delete certain posts that trumpet an immature mindset. I'd actually prefer to leave them as evidence that, contrary to popular belief, people do change. However, "I wrote that ten years ago" has never been an easily-swallowed excuse when someone reads something monumentally stupid for the first time. It's new to them.
I am not going to delete any posts relating to past acquaintances, friends or lovers. As much as I would like to forget much of the past, it's still there. Maybe someone can glean insight from it.
I don't want to be a well-known blogger, but I want to be compelling enough that more than six or eight people bother to drop in. I think of the bloggers I follow - Amy Alkon and Luke Ford are at the top of the list. Their styles and subject matter are very different from one another. Amy Alkon (www.advicegoddess.com) writes matter-of-factly, boldly and with a definitive stong yet distinctly feminine voice. Luke Ford (www.lukeford.net) is at times wistful, other times egotistical, often with a veneer of self-confidence that's pretty obviously complete bullshit. They don't just regurgitate the news of the day (although Alkon does blog on, among other things, current events). Ford is all over the place - he discusses his childhood, his conversion to and practice of Orthodox Judaism, the trials and tribulations of dating in Los Angeles, and when we the readers are lucky he shares his writing. Alkon's not quite in the 'blog about whatever' category. Manners, travel, and her gleeful delight in the fact that she never lays down and takes it from anyone are regular topics. I don't want to be Luke Ford and I'll never be Amy Alkon, but I hope at least that what I have to say, someone wants to hear.