June 16, 2010 at 9:07pm
Six times in the past three weeks, I nearly deleted this blog. I enjoy writing, and I like the idea that some small scrap of whatever I say may benefit someone in some small way, but whenever I get the feeling that someone is really reading what I say, I run. I’m terribly shy. It’s very self-defeating.
I’ve terminated five or six blogs for this very reason. The moment I see spikes in the stats or comments start rolling in, I get nervous and close down shop. If colleagues or friends start mentioning something I wrote about, I shrink. Anyone who has stuck around for more than a year has seen this.
But I’m about to turn 30. If I’ve learned anything at all, it’s that if something is making you feel bad, it might be a good idea to actually face it instead of running off. So, I’ll be keeping the doors open.
Sorry for being a weenie.
December 24, 2009 at 1:46pm
I wish I had started blogging before it was popular and before you could make money doing it. I also wish that for the first six months of writing my first blog I hadn’t read anyone else’s site, so I could have discovered my own voice, my own rhythm and my own niche. Instead I read every how to out there, and studied all the popular blogs. They all told me to publish easily scannable posts. To use the right keywords and create outstanding post titles. That may be fine for them, but to me that’s not writing. And I want to write.
— Personally Reinventing the Weblog Publishing Stereotype – Shawn Blanc
November 26, 2009 at 7:24am
Why Tumblr?
Last night, I decided to finally pull the trigger and begin tearing down an old blog of mine and begin writing here as I feel the need. The reasons are varied, but when it comes down to it, I’m mostly tired of the amount of pretending required to keep it all up.
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