This is my first blog post. Ever. Something I mentioned in my first day writing assignment was that I had never written a blog before. I had been tempted to write a blog. I had even been encouraged to write a blog. But I resisted. My personality is very introverted and I have a tendency to hold my cards close to my chest, so I didn't feel comfortable with putting some of my most intimate thoughts on full display for everyone to see. I still don't, really, but I do what I'm told. And I've been told to write a blog.
Now I need to decide where to go from here. Obviously I’ll have to follow the writing prompts as they come up, but I’d like to do more with the blog. Before, when I had an idea that was “blog-worthy,” I usually just dismissed it because it didn’t seem to be worth the trouble of starting a blog to make just one entry. I’ve read several blogs in the past that contained only two or three entries, all written within the first week of being started, with nothing new for months afterward. My mindset is that I want to finish everything I start, but that seems to have the unintended consequence of making me reluctant to start anything I’m not willing to commit to.
I didn’t want to have an embarrassing “empty blog,” so I never started one. Now that I’ve got one anyways, I need to force myself to fill it up. There’s probably not going to be any particular theme to my blog, or at least I’m not planning on anything just yet. Maybe it’ll develop over time. Or maybe not… Maybe I won’t be able to come up with anything, and I’ll wind up so starved of ideas that I spend hours at a time staring blankly at the computer monitor until I go insane. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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Somehow, I can't see you winding up "starved of ideas" -- but I totally understand what you said about being hesitant to start something you might not end up finishing. That's why I didn't start a blog for a really long time. And I have to admit that there's a lingering doubt that sometimes haunts me as I blog.... Are my thoughts really so important that I think other people should read them? It's a funny thing about the internet -- people put all this stuff out there for the world to see, and yet how much of it really matters? But then I realized something. If people are going to spend their own precious time reading something I wrote, that's their call. It's interesting that, in light of that, you're thinking about which ideas of yours are "blog-worthy." I think that says a lot about you.
ReplyDeleteThis assignment was my first taste of the blogging world too. I also was a bit reluctant about releasing my ideas to the public, but once I got started I just rolled from one thing to the next.
ReplyDeleteAnne, shouldn't we all filter all of our ideas and sepearte those that are blog worthy from those that aren't? It wouldn't be very respectful to post random babble and waste other's time.
This is my first blog too and I think you'll easily come up with stuff to talk about. As much as I was dreading making my blog, I find the whole aspect of it very interesting. The fact that we're using this tool in the classroom interests me and really does show that times have changed (in the classroom). I think it will be interesting to be able to read our classmates thoughts and their opinions on mine.
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Good point, Scott. I mean, we probably SHOULD all filter our ideas and only put up what's truly "blog-worthy"...but do you really think everyone's that responsible about their blogging? There's a good chance I'm just jaded and cynical, but I think there are a lot of unfiltered blogs out there....
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