It’s been over a year since I started writing a blog this so it’s a good time for me to evaluate how this is working for me. A blog can be personal or professional and I write between how each works, it appears. The professional ones seem contrived to promote sales. The personal ones seem mostly self-involved exposure of life’s events. Neither of these options are attractive to me.. Hmmm . . .
Maybe blogging is not my gig.
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Funny, I was just thinking about you today and wondering when you would blog next.
My own experience is that it takes time for a blog to hit its stride. The more regularly you blog, the sooner it will happen. Also, you don’t really get to decide what your blog will be – it will shape itself over time, and you will begin to see the patterns in the body of work that merges over time.
Does that make sense?
Zoom . . . your blog is consistently interesting and worthy of reading. It’s one of my absolute favorites (and there are very few of those).
Maybe I need to forget the “purpose” and just write. Which I really enjoy. But I’m also afraid of revealing too much that is too personal. Why? Dunno.
A blog becomes a persona all its own. A character in its own story, if you will. It certainly can bring you friends and influence people
(or the opposite!) If you give the blog time, it will speak of its needs.
Thank you for your perspective, Nancy. You and Zoom are more experienced at this than I and I appreciate your taking the time to comment.
i see you just got back from Camp and that you were in MI. Last summer Meg told me I could come and teach there any time . . . and I always have a family reunion in MI on the 4th that I usually go to, so I just may take her up on that.
I was in Mackinaw City on July 7th (the day after you were there) to visit Cynthia’s Fine Yarn and Gifts which is a charming and fascinating shop. I’m doing her fall retreat in October and wanted to meet her beforehand since I was in MI to be with family anyway. I’m excited about it because I think it’s going to be so much fun and valuable to knitters.
I do hope you will continue to blog Cheryl. And yes, forget the purpose, just write, let it flow.
Thanks Zoom. I respect and enjoy your writing a great deal so your comments are important to me.