I have been tagged by fellow blogger Rachel Langston of RPL Communications (http://rplcommunications.blogspot.com) to answer the question, "Why Do I Blog?"
Here are my answers in no particular order:
1. Connection. I started blogging when I left my day job to work on my novel and do freelance work full time from home a couple of months ago. While I love working in my slippers at the kitchen table, my cat doesn't provide the same sort of inspiration as other writers embarking on the same sorts of projects. Once I started blogging, I discovered the wonderful community of wordsmiths out there, particularly women, and I stopped feeling so alone in my professional endeavors.
2. Accountability. Blogging helps hold me accountable to my novel writing project.
3. To Write. Yes, the whole point in leaving my job was to work on my novel full time, but as it has turned out, my production level has fallen short of my expectations. I go through all of the problems I assume other writers face. I don't know where my story is heading. I start doubting my story all together. Frankly, I'm not sure if anyone will care anyway. Blogging helps get my creative juices flowing and ensures that I write something other than news articles.
4. Therapy. Blogging gives me an outlet to share my ups and downs my writing world brings. As with a journal, I get to get it all out, and there is the bonus of other writers with which to commiserate or celebrate.
5. A Filing System. Although not intended to become one, my blog has given me the opportunity to get organized to some extent. Instead of trying to remember or write down all my favorite writing links and blogs, my blog serves as a filing cabinet that I can easily access anytime I need to.
6. Understanding. My friends and family have told me on more than one occasion that they understand me much more from reading what I write than from what I have to say. I tend to be choosy about what I'm willing to share verbally, but for some reason, I'm much more prolific with written words.
7. Fun. I enjoy blogging. I love getting comments and am always excited to discover another new blog out there.
So, why do you blog?
Friday, February 16, 2007
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3 comments:
These are all great reasons and many are similar to mine: http://theurbanmuse.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-i-blog.html.
For me, it started out as a chance to write for me, and not for my customers, to have a space completely my own (important as a mother of three), and place to write my life. It's still all those things, but it's become an amazing way to connect with people all over the world who love books and writing as I do. I never expected the human side of blogging to be as satisfying.
I'm blogging because I'm just getting started with trying to sell my writing, and I figure it would be great to document the experience from sending off those first manuscripts to (hopefully) getting published and hitting it big.
I also like blogging because I can write about whatever interests me and don't have to stick to any particular subject or genre.
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