A blogger’s insecurities
Published by Esteban Glas on April 28th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: Blogs, personal
A blog is your voice. It reflects your thoughts, feelings and ideas. It is a powerful thing in more senses that are worth mentioning in this post, since the aim here is different.
As a blogger you can potentially reach millions with your words (it is not the case of “the challenge”, I’m afraid), thus you have a certain responsibility with what you state.
In my case that “responsibility” comes in not only in the way of carefully choosing what I talk about and how I deliver the message, taking special care not to become too personal or reveal things I’m not supposed to, but also in the content of what I write.
My aim is to write things that are entertaining, educational, that trigger thoughts, and that have some novelty in them. I know I can’t possibly deliver excellent posts 100% of the time, but my feeling lately has been rather upsetting.
For the past month or so (maybe a little more), I’ve been writing posts I’m not all that happy with. Not because they are bad, but because after hitting the “Publish” button and re-reading them I get the feeling I left things unsaid, and that I might of been on the edge of making a much better job “telling the story”.
This has happened to me before. I’ve tried twice to write “novels”, and after several months in the task I fell out of love with them, truncating the projects. (One of the items on my life’s to do list is to write a book).
I do believe that the only solution to this is to keep trying. One faces cycles in life, you might be highly inspired at one moment, and loose it at the next, yet only “working” can stay as a constant and something we can get a grip on.
Have you ever had this sensation with your blogs or other things in life?
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April 28th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
It happens.
Lately I’ve been collecting a series of drafts on a variety of subjects, and I haven’t finished any them. That’s why Midori isn’t posting
I often find it hard to order my thoughts and write them down in a way that makes sense to whoever reads them (Gee.. am I really so messed up?). I can write, but it’s no good if I can’t get my message through, right?
As I have experienced through the years, inspiration comes and goes. I’m sure that when the time is right you’ll find just the thing to keep you inspired and motivated to finish your book. Then you can cross that one out from your list and move on to the next: plant a tree and have a child.
PS. I can’t escape my fate as a QA… check out the end of the first paragraph.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Esteban,
Thanks for sharing - I think most everyone struggles with this as well. Whether writing for blog or not, I often find that after writing something out, I find a new point of view or a new place to enter the story and I begin again.
I believe it also has a lot to do with what you consider a quality post. Many people write clever things, little editorials about society and news of the day, and develop devoted readers because of their particular style or the way they cover material. There are also lots of diary blogs, and lots of blogs about being human. I think you and I cover a lot of these spaces, maybe grade ourselves based on whether or not we said something unique and profound.
For me, I like to write about what is going on in my life, and the posts that I’m most pleased with serve up a life lesson, beyond just the facts about my life.
I think there are several things that make a blog successful if you get past readership, views, and links. Do you stir others to consider and expand upon points of thought? Do you present a story that has meaning and does more than create an “impression” the way the news on the TV comes accross? If you have created value to anyone out there, it was a good entry. If writing the entry moved you along on your journey, either in discovery of a new thought, or in refining the unique characteristics of your written “voice”, then I think it was a good post.