I read a piece of advice on blogging earlier today (yep, a lot of the things I say are prompted by thought-provoking things I read). This advice was actually intended to be about Twitter, but I personally think it’s more applicable to blogging.
Essentially, the particular nugget of wisdom that caught my attention was this: Don’t think of each blog post as a separate topic; considered, conceived, prepared, drafted, edited to perfection. That makes the task too daunting. If each post is going to be like a well-researched article, it might as well be just that. Most likely, that’s not what blogging is about (at least, that’s not exactly how I’m going to use it). Think of your blog more like a stream of consciousness.
If something is interesting to one person (say, me, for example), why wouldn’t it be interesting to somebody else (overly personal information excluded)? If something is troubling to me, helpful to me, sad to me, or exciting to me, isn’t it likely that it will be one of those thing to other people as well?
Maybe it will. Or, maybe it won’t, but it’s an interesting perspective, and I intend to try it. I read a lot about writing, I think a lot about writing, and I’d like to believe once in a while, I figure something out or have some insight related to writing. Perhaps that would be worth sharing.
Of course, mixed in with my “stream of consciousness” are things not even remotely related to writing, but that’s just the price I’m going to have to pay to weed out all my brilliant writing discoveries, thoughts, frustrations, and ideas from my regular discoveries, thoughts, frtustrations, and ideas.
