Blogging for joy's sake
This blog is a response to Binarydigit's postand Robert's post about blogging more, something that's right up my alley :)
Let me start off with a quote from Robert, because this is something Iāve always felt about blogging but worded in a delightful way:
In the world of blogging, the www bit stands for:
Write Whatever Whenever
This is basically a truncated version of my blogging philosophy, but thereās more to it, for me. Something that may sound selfish, but is actually liberating.
Years ago I was in a blogging slump, I didnāt know what to write, and I didnāt know if anyone would ever like what I would write.
Then one morning, I wrote something in my journal, I think, or for a blog post that has stuck with me ever since: I blog for an audience of one: me.
This realisation keeps me writing, keeps me sharing what I write.
My Dear Creative Soul letters are all letters to myself, to inspire me to create more, and I share them because I think that other creatives may want to read them too.
This is a bit of a bad example, because I do write the dear creative soul letters inspired by others too, sometimes I read something another creative writes on social media, and the letter just writes itself.
Short stories donāt get many clicks on my blog. I really donāt care. These stories are usually edits of short stories that lived on my blog before, and I want them on my blog, again. Thatās all the reason I need to post.
So that means I hardly ever look at analytics on my blog. I do see the clicks on hearts, but thatās only because the hearts stats are on my blogās dashboard page.
Itās so liberating to blog like this. I have a thought, I write it, and itās on my blog before I know it.
And it keeps me blogging.