I’ve
spent nearly a week now trying to decide on a blog topic. What is it that
people want to read on internet blogs? Do people want to read about my day? About
the average day of a college student? About classes and courses and homework
and professors? If that is what people want, they’re going to need to read it
somewhere else. I don’t think I’m self-important enough to even attempt to
write about that. I could write about my life, my girlfriend, my dog… do people
really write about those things in blogs? More importantly, does anyone care
about those things so much that someone else’s blog about their
life/dog/significant other somehow becomes interesting? Today’s breakfast was
eggs and toast. They were delicious. The eggs were fried to a perfect
over-medium and the toast was whole wheat. Really? REALLY? No. Not for me,
thanks but I’ve had enough. Instead I think my blog will have zero overarching
topics. Maybe things will be posted that somehow connect, and maybe they won’t.
You’ll just have to keep showing up to find out what the newest blog is.
Maybe instead of looking at the blog as your soapbox look at it as your voice in a conversation. All of life is this conversation and if you take time to listen then speaking is not yelling to show your own importance but it is your response in the conversation. Writing is art and yeah you'll have the narcissistic artists but even your blogging about hating blogging, while ironic, is part of the conversation. It is expression. It is art at the base level. For what is art but a man/woman trying to express some facet of his/her reality?
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to get started. I myself couldn't think of a topic. I never really thought of it as narcissistic though, just a spouting of ideas. I guess if I had gotten anywhere in my blog it would have been as a sort of public journal, only perhaps a little more edited. And maybe someone would stumble across it, but that wouldn't have been the point. Although, if my ideas sparked other ideas, that would be cool.
ReplyDeleteIt usually starts with something mundane! Or not mundane. Write about something your girlfriend did! Something your dog did! Keep going with it! Talk about it until you find some other aspects of it to investigate. Is there something you find interesting? Look it up on wikipedia and ramble about it!
ReplyDeleteOne of the problems with blogs is people being under the impression is has to be interesting to someone other than yourself. Some blogs are, and that's great. Not all of them though! Write what you want to and the rest will come!
TALK ABOUT EGGS WHO CARES IF YOU SOUND LIKE A FAT KID.
But... eggs are amazing!!!
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