Wednesday, February 20, 2013

To Blog or Not to Blog...

Not a huge question to some, but I’ve wavered for a while. See, I used to blog periodically on The Mrs, but my partner in crime has since decided to shut down her show—completely her decision and justified, no ill-will here. I’ve also been known to write a book review or two over at Post Whatever, but content has been... lagging... for a while. Life interferes, especially with voluntary projects.

So do I open my own shop? Start writing my own blog? By running my own show I’d have a lot more freedom of choice—not that the previous partners were restrictive, but in principle, by calling the shots I only have to answer to myself...

(HEY! I can curse ALL I FUCKING WANT!)

So I lean towards doing it, but... but... but...

The thing is: it’s a lot of work.

To decide a topic, to write the post, to gather a corresponding image (the internet is a visual beast, after all), to grab a minute to put it all together and upload it for public consumption... And that’s just a single post...

What about subject matter? A focused blog? What shall I write about? Anything in particular? Or just all the rambly shit tumbling in my brain?

What about anonymity? Do I keep myself completely anonymous and let it all hang out? Or do I take a marginal step back, shield my family from strangers, but still share my posts with family and friends who know us? Blatantly labeling our family for the whole wide internet goes against my better judgement—but sharing a bit under the veil of partial obscurity, well, I could probably handle that (again).

Really, though, I wonder... do I want to commit? Do I have TIME? and if I do, does something else suffer?

That, then, is when I hit the truth...

When I was blogging on a weekly basis with The Mrs, I was highly productive in my personal writing. Now? Well, I have lots of edits that I keep putting off. Perhaps blogging would be the kick start that resets my internal mechanism into perpetual motion?

Here goes...

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