Don't Blog for the index?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 I was talking with someone about not blogging for the audience. His assertion was that blogging is for the author.
I agree with a major qualification.
If the satisfaction the author recieves from writing (read: blogging) is less than the satisfaction the author anticipates getting (or has received) from the result of writing then they won't.
I think most people don't enjoy the act of writing. They never have. Writing has, for the most part, been a chore. It's been something to do to get a grade for almost all of us. It's not been a behavior to partake in for the sake of betterment and therefore, to the degree that one holds a dislike of the notion of writing, so also they don't/won't blog.
BTW... this is what I think makes part of what Twitter and Tumblr have done so brilliant. Twitter reduced the threshold for "successful" creation by limiting post size. It is much easier to write small than big (read: blog). Tumblr, for the most part, empowers people to build collections of other content as one's own collection thus changing the reason to "blog" from creation to curation (often a lower perceived "pressure" behavior).
Anyway... back to why people don't blog for themselves. My contention is that they don't have a construct for being able to honestly support believing that the act of writing for a blog could be an enjoyable or beneficial behavior standing on it's own. So, they don't blog for themselves.
As someone who has posted a number of times recently... I've only sort of enjoyed the act blogging. I think, among other things, walking the golf course, going on a peddle bike ride or even mowing the lawn still seem more enjoyable than behavior of writing/blogging. But you can't do those things all the time. So maybe there is still hope for blogging?
However, come to think of it, I have enjoyed the higher degree of clarity I have around the ideas I have blogged about. So... there you go, maybe that is the goal. Maybe blogging is just a tool, a utility, for crisping up ones thoughts and it just happens to have a "publish" button. After all... who would say they don't want crisper thoughts? Stated this way... everyone wants to blog, right? Everyone would, if given the choice, choose crisper thoughts?
Does it work for you? Does increasing the idea that writing and therefore blogging has the potential to bring clarity to your own thinking make it worth doing? Do you value clear thinking and therefore partaking in the act of blogging?
Holding clarity as the core reason to blog might just make it a sustainable behavior... at least for me. Might. Might not.
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"However, come to think of it, I have enjoyed the higher degree of clarity I have around the ideas I have blogged about. So... there you go, maybe that is the goal. Maybe blogging is just a tool, a utility, for crisping up ones thoughts and it just happens to have a "publish" button. After all... who would say they don't want crisper thoughts? Stated this way... everyone wants to blog, right?"
YES.
This is why you write for yourself. To make your thoughts come to life somewhere other than your head.
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