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November 14th, 2007 by Cecilie | Filed under Random.I asked Kade over at A Wooly Discipline a question over at her blog, and she was kind enough to write a pretty good post about it. The post made me think more about what would I write as an answer to the question myself?
So here goes
How do you feel about daily blogging and why are you (not) going to
continue with it?
I started writing things online years ago. At that time people would call their “thing” an online diary if that was what it was, just ramblings and daily life stuff.
And a blog was something different, you didn’t write too personal on there, but mostly stayed on topic with whatever your blog was about.
I had an Online Diary, first at Xanga for 6 months or so. But the service had a lot of problems and I left.
I joined a Norwegian online diary community (EnjoyDiary), and stayed for three years. Yep, three years, often multiple postings each day. I have a year where there no dates without posts.
I left EnjoyDiary for a number of reasons, I didn’t care for some of the rules, some people I needed to get away from was on there and I just wanted my own thing.
Two years ago I bought this domain and put up the wordpress blog on it. It was very liberating at first, like moving out from a shared living situation and into your own flat.
That’s a long way of telling you that I’ve been doing this for a long time, and now I don’t really see much of a point anymore in posting obsessively. I’ve been there, done that (didn’t get the fucking t-shirt).
I’m trying to post daily now, and I notice that I’ve changed. What’s important too me now isn’t the same things as before. I’m not 16 anymore, the self absorbed girl that obsessed over her weight and couldn’t sleep isn’t me. I don’t have a depression to write about and moan of. Just everyday living. And I see no point in writing about that.
I’m not a good blogger, life gets in the way, and in the end, it all boils down to time.
After this month I’m not going to keep on posting daily. I’m just not that interesting.
Tags: blogging
I definitely make that distinction between blogging and having an online diary. I’ve been keeping an online diary in one form or another since 1995. Most of those old records are gone as the community sites have shut down over time or I just deleted old entries. I’ve been journalling on one particular site since 2001 and I have my entire log of my time there.
This is very similar to what I was discussing in my post about the focus of my blog. It’s a very fine line between anecdotes and navel gazing. Currently my blog readership (that I know of) is my family and some personal friends (and you!) but I want to write in a way that is accessible for strangers. I know that if I come across a diary blog, unless it’s well written, I don’t really stick around.
I see nothing with that kind of blog. Post and whine to your heart’s content. One thing that was drilled into me in school was “know your audience.” If your intended audience is you, your cat, and your best friend then awesome! If your audience is the great unwashed masses then a little less whining (and possibly some boobies) is definitely in order.
This is rambly and I’m not saying you’ve been whining!
Daily blogging, however, does make it a little tough to stay away from the mundane. I posted the other day about going to eat oysters! Mind you I posted about that because I was going to eat oysters and had no time to think of a thought out blog post ^^
Can I stop this comment now? It might be longer than your entry.
In conclusion, I agree
My journal is just that — journal rather than blog. I started it for myself, as I have a tendency to lose time if I don’t have a record of it (i.e., where the hell did 2006 go?), but I’ve made some friends through it over the years, and now it’s for me *and* them. I’ve been happy to see that the posting-every-day hasn’t been too much of a trial for me, but I won’t keep it up after November. Like you say, I’m just not that interesting.
(here via the NaBloPoMo thread at Ravelry)