The blog
Posted by Randilin on January 16, 2008
I’ve been reading a fair amount about blogging over the past couple of days, trying to figure out what the best way to go with mine would be. Pretty much everything I’ve read suggests a focused blog, something that sticks with a single topic. But I honestly don’t know if I want to go that way. I have lots of interests, and they are pretty diverse as well. To this blog to just one of them would frustrate me to know end.
Anyways the idea of the blog orginally was that it would be a place I could talk what fills my day. Ie what happens between the ticks of the clock. That would leave me free to talk about anything from my day, environmental issues, movies, media, video games, books, writing, weightloss, whatever was on my mind or catching my fancy at that time.
You folks are all the people who are reading this what would you prefer? A couple of ideas I’ve had as I wrote this are as follows
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Just keep it the way it, don’t make any changes at all
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Leave it the way it is, I write whatever when ever. But on set days I would be sure to post at least something on its topic. IE
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Mondays would always have some type post about Writing
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Tuesday would have something about media
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and so on
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Become more focused in the blog and limit the topics
What would all of you like to see, or maybe you have some other suggestions. Please give me some feed back on this.
mapelba said
Seems to me that the focus of this blog is your observations and interests. Why focus more than that? If you try to stick to a narrow topic, you might stop blogging because it would feel like a chore or like your fencing yourself in. Sometimes structure is good, and if you have a particular area of interest, then maybe go with the set days–set topics idea. That way at least you wouldn’t find yourself staring at the screen wondering what to do. Keep writing!
Jay said
I think anything goes – especially on a personal blog. Mine’s focused mostly on unusual experiences, things that I imagine people might like to hear about so they feel a little more connected to me. I think forcing yourself to write more frequently is worthwhile – forcing yourself to write “on topic” is going to be limiting and ultimately frustrating.
I’d like to hear about whatever you find interesting enough to post!
-Jay