Seriously.
When I started this LJ account, way back whenever it was (can’t recall) I didn’t actually want to do anything with it. Well, surprise, now I do. You might’ve noticed this. It happened right around the time I started actually making posts. Posts, I must note, which are also forwarded to Facebook. Hello, Facebook!
Now I’ve played around for a while, I’ve experimented with features, I’ve explored possibilities, and it has all worked out fine so far. But what is my purpose? Am I just posting unrevised and unedited thoughts in a box and then poking the “publish” button and hoping someone is sitting in front of their monitor thinking, “I wish someone would post unrevised and unedited thoughts in a box for me to read and alleviate my terrible boredom, which is rather terrible indeed for I am willing to look to alleviate my boredom by reading something someone else is posting which will likely be about nothing at all and only leave me more bored than I already was, but I must read because surely the poster, despite perhaps being full aware of the severe lack of quality his post contains, is no doubt publishing this so that someone will read it, and I have taken it upon myself to be that very someone, despite the fact that what the poster has to say will likely have no bearing on my life and may very well be about nothing I understand at all.” Well, am I?
It is this question that brings me to where I am now. I like to think I’m striving for some kind of quality, so that even if readers have no idea what the hell I’m talking about, they can still find some modicum of entertainment in them. That’s what I want to be doing, but I don’t think I’ve been setting the bar high enough for myself to achieve that.
I want to keep posting on things that interest me and not limit myself to just one branch of that, so if I’m going to get serious with this blog, quality needs to go up. I need to start proofreading my posts at a minimum, and other quality criteria might come into play as I develop this idea. I don’t know if you can measure wit, but I want some amount of wit per post. That’s not asking for too much, is it?
Another thing I’ve got to decide is this: do I continue using LJ? It just doesn’t feel like the right medium. If I’m going to do serious blogging, shouldn’t I be using a serious blog site? Like, Blogger, for example? This is the problem: I don’t know if what I’ve to say is that important to merit a Blogger blog, but at the same time, I don’t know if I want my little blog associated with LiveJournal, which for the most part does not feel like a serious blogging site at all. I think this question is one that will resolve itself once I start increasing the quality of my posts. In other words, time will tell.
As of right now, my goal is quality, and that’s my only goal. I’ll set a deadline for myself since that’s the only way any plan makes any sense at all. I’ll say that by the end of July, I’ll have posts that are entertaining in nature and thoroughly proofread. At that point I will decide what to do with this blog.