hay guise eye haev a blog now lol
I've decided to try blogging again. All my attempts at blogging in the past have failed, and I think I know why. I was going about it the wrong way.
Why Blog?
I like the idea of blogging. I want to write something that will be published and preserved for people to see. Writing for an audience. On the other hand, it's also a forum for me to write for myself, to indulge myself- to journal, if you will. Informal blogging straddles the midpoint between public presentation and private confessional. In my previous blogs I've tried too hard to publicize it, and then either lost interest when nobody (so far as I could tell) read it, or stopped writing under the pressure to create consistent content (Catch 22). On the other hand, journal's I've kept have been pointless rambling bits of naval gazing that quickly loose all structure or readability. There is no impetus to be clear, so clarity is quickly lost.
A good blog should strike the midpoint between these two extremes. It should be a forum for the author to jot off a quick idea, or share a thought on the fly. It should also be a place for more in-depth meditations. At least that's what I hope to achieve with this blog. I like the fact that I'm not addressing myself; I'm addressing an invisible (possibly non-existent) audience. When you write with an audience, it changes the tone of your writing. Notably for the better. All the same, I'm not limited to posting only things I think strangers on the internets will think is cool, I can write about whatever I want and not give a fuck what anybody thinks. It's a good balance, and hopefully a productive one.
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