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Why do you blog?
May. 8th, 2018 11:48 amThe three of us all try to blog - although none of us are particularly good at it. We all seem to have bursts and spurts. I know I want to keep it in my schedule but I haven't really figured out what to do with it. Lucy has actually has a blogging spread in her bullet journal - blogging ideas, days to blog and reminders to comment etc.
I definitely find inspiration is something I struggle with and it comes down to why do I want to blog.
Lucy uses hers almost as a form of therapy - to get thoughts out of her head and down on 'paper', to help her sort out what's going on and work through it. I know she writes a lot of posts that she doesn't actually publish.
Me... I started it because I was trying to find something to do after retiring. Lucy did it and it seemed interesting. I like meeting and interacting with new people and thought blogging would be a great way to meet people I wouldn't normally meet in real life - but also to find and get to know people with similar interests.
I've found I like blogging because it makes me a better writer. Communicating in person is easy, you have tone and body language but when it's just words on a screen, you have to be more careful, more selective over your words and sentence structure less you come over wrong. Sarcasm, for example, doesn't always translate to a written form.
I also like that it makes me more aware of my life, more intentional about my decisions, more observant about myself. Obviously I can't write about every event, every thought and every happening in my life. So there's a process of how I articulate the most meaningful moments and important thoughts and sometimes the most meaningful things start to appear in the mundane.
There's also the rush I get when I get feedback, every time one of you comments on one of my posts. So thank you.
So what about you - why do you blog?
I definitely find inspiration is something I struggle with and it comes down to why do I want to blog.
Lucy uses hers almost as a form of therapy - to get thoughts out of her head and down on 'paper', to help her sort out what's going on and work through it. I know she writes a lot of posts that she doesn't actually publish.
Me... I started it because I was trying to find something to do after retiring. Lucy did it and it seemed interesting. I like meeting and interacting with new people and thought blogging would be a great way to meet people I wouldn't normally meet in real life - but also to find and get to know people with similar interests.
I've found I like blogging because it makes me a better writer. Communicating in person is easy, you have tone and body language but when it's just words on a screen, you have to be more careful, more selective over your words and sentence structure less you come over wrong. Sarcasm, for example, doesn't always translate to a written form.
I also like that it makes me more aware of my life, more intentional about my decisions, more observant about myself. Obviously I can't write about every event, every thought and every happening in my life. So there's a process of how I articulate the most meaningful moments and important thoughts and sometimes the most meaningful things start to appear in the mundane.
There's also the rush I get when I get feedback, every time one of you comments on one of my posts. So thank you.
So what about you - why do you blog?
