Every once in a while I have a friend or family member that asks me the question “Do you have a blog?”, or “What’s the url to your blog?” and I have to tell them no.
Truth is, I do have one, it just is not public. The private one I use as an outlet to the world and I post it on an anonymous domain by an anonymous name. The question for my blog url is being asked at least once a month now, and I think it is time for a more public one. So here it is. My blog site. Here you can read more about me and what goes on in my life; On line and off line. And I invite you to visit it once in a while for updates, you’re of course free to link to it from your own site.
In the next few weeks I will probably feel motivated to publish my events, and hopefully I keep motivated to continue to do so. I am not blogging because of, uhm, how do some people say this “This is the new rock and roll”. I have to disappoint you as I am more down to earth, the reason for me to have a blog is to have a little (private) spot on the Internet where I can write away what I think and feel. And to let others know what goes on in my life. Since my first day on the web I have always tried to put a distinct line between my personal off line life and my on line one. Over the last few years this line has faded away and I have let more on line friends become off line friends too.
When I will post is as irregular as my sleeping pattern. It comes and goes, it can skip a few days or when I feel like it I might just post even twice a day. Most important about this blog site is that I take time away from everything I am doing and spend it on writing down my thoughts and think about what’s going on, put that in perspective and decide whether or not to share that experience.
Personally I do not find it important if a person comments, or even just reads my blog entries. But you are reading this now, so thank you, I appreciate that. I hope enjoy reading my entries, and I hope you can see the difference between when I am really serious, or when I am just blah-ing away, or when you’re supposed to take my words with a grain of salt. Regardless of how you take what I’ve written, if you agree or not, if you share my opinion or not > remember that this is about me; may it be my on- or off line life, it is real life.
Be well,
Floris
I feel the same way when it comes to blogging. Sometimes I feel like writing several times a day, especially when I have a lot of thoughts that I want to get out. But then there are other times when I will not blog for days, and sometimes even months. I see many people that blog daily because they think, just as you say, “It’s The New Rock N Roll” ( lol, I like that). That’s just so not me though. It comes and goes in waves. I do enjoy reading your blogs though, and I hope you continue !
Although I tend to blog when the mood strikes me, mostly on my MySpace blog because I don’t know where else to put a “web log,” I don’t blog every day, either. Mine is a public blog, so I don’t like cluttering it up with daily “Today is Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. This morning I stubbed my toe while going to the john in the dark” entries.
That kind of blogging is boring and dreary to me, and because I’m a writer, I am acutely aware that other people are reading my entries. So I try to write either easy-to-digest fare or try what one of my friends calls “shameless self-promotion” by posting some of my online articles (reviews, mostly).
Only on occasion will I “pour my heart out” to vent about the crappy side of life, but I am like leighdu…I don’t blog just because it’s the “in” thing to do.
Even i thought of blogging. Once i created too many blogs in blogspot for each category. I was not able to make regular posts after about one week. But then i have only one blog now. It is private. Until now it was public. Its my personal blog. So i used the option of making it private in blogspot and am continuing with it now.