Dear Blog,
I’m in a conundrum. I have spoken before about not knowing what to do with you. I feel like we are in a rut to a degree. This could come from I’m in a bit of a flux in my personal life, however, you are an extension of what happens in the non virtual world.
Maybe that’s it.
Zombies have become almost too mainstream for my tastes although I still like them. Politics is drowning me to a degree because my optimism has been replaced with some cynicism. Bigfoot hasn’t been seen much lately. Mabel is still fabulous. Do I talk too personal? Am I not personal enough?
Now that some of the locals are reading this, is it too much? What is too much?
I think my main thing right now is that I’m going to have to quit worrying about you and have fun with you again.
Of course I want people to read you and enjoy you. I am quite fond of you. We’ve been together for a long time. I just need to figure out where we are headed.
Still love you madly,
Newscoma
I feel that way all the time. Especially lately. I hardly post anything of substance anymore because I don’t know what to put. There are things I’d love to share but I don’t feel that I can.
I think we all run into this identity crisis on blogs.
I did when I started blogging for money and realized that potential boss-types could come by and read my personal blog. For awhile it just totally locked me up, because then it stops being fun and personal and starts being kind of fun and somewhat personal, but not too personal because I don’t want potential employers to look at it and think I’m insane. The first time I took down a post (or didn’t publish a post) because of how I thought it would make me look was the moment I lost something with my blog.
One of the reasons why I did the NaBloPoMo was I wanted to reclaim ownership of my blog again. I wanted it to be more about me directly, and not just links to stuff I’m doing elsewhere. It’s helped me quite a bit.
I think your problem isn’t so much that you’re not blogging so much the way you want or, or as often as you want to, but that you’re just stressed out and burned out and worrying, and after awhile that gets tiresome to deal with/write about/not write about. I don’t think something like NaBloPoMo would be your cure-all, but maybe loosening up your internal governor could help get a little bit of the fun back into your blogging. Not worry so much about who might be reading, and just write what you want to write and screw ‘em if they can’t handle it.
That’s easy for me to say, but a whole lot harder to do. You’ll get through it, though. It’ll just take some time.
The reason I have an archive of several months after publishing for 10 years on the web is because I go through it often. Only when I go through it, I pull everything from my archives and close the site down. At least you didn’t do that.
The only advice I have is: Just keep writing and have fun.
Oh, and don’t pull your site down and delete your archives.
I think that sometimes you just have to randomly just post whatever you like the time, and whatever happens, happens. If politics, then politics. If on bad TV, then bad TV. Remember, you’re only doing this for yourself, if anybody else reads it then that’s gravy.
Don’t worry about blog focus, and just post randomly, and let the accumulation of your posts be your blog.
“Politics is drowning me to a degree because my optimism has been replaced with some cynicism.”
That wouldn’t be because the guy who just got elected as Mr. Hope and Change personified, is now strongly hinting with his actions that he is going to govern as a mix of Clinton’s and Bush’s third term combined, would it?
(What’s blogging without some political needling? *smirk*
Seriously, I hope any funk you may be going through is quick, so you can get yourself into the good type of funk where you shake your bottom to the music.)
The whole reason I come by here is the mishmash of stuff you write about. It’s kind of like a good grab-bag of topics. When I click, I never know what I’m going to read, whether it will be lighthearted or serious.
But I enjoy the writing, the topics — and can’t wait for Lost to come back on so we can marinate in it’s TV goodness here.
I guess at some point you have to ask yourself “am I still having fun?”
Are you?
Again I say: you are not alone, and you are loved.
I’ve been turning this over and over in my head as well and was actually going to post about it when I came over here and read yours. I may still post my own thoughts about it at some point. Very thought-provoking.
There’s a reason I just put up cat pixels, y’know.
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