Sharon, my Bahamian writing pal, has tagged me to explain myself —
- Updated:
- 23 June 2007
Now I’m really feeling the love! This time it is Eyebee who was kind enough to tag me. It’s so hard to keep track of who’s done what meme, isn’t it? - 9 April 2007
So flattering, Internet Safety Queen has also tagged me for the “Why I Blog” meme! - 14 April 2007
Tagged again! By Mark, who writes of the waking of his inner dragon… great image!
Why do I do this blogging thing?
Five Reasons…
- I started blogging because I was in the middle of a soul-deadening long-term project and needed to do something completely different. And there was Blogger, just sitting there, begging to be tried out… for free!
- Then, to quote Sharon, I found WritingUp. In its lively interactive community of bloggers, I made some good new online pals and began to see the potential of social blogging…Some of those first friendship have lasted well, and now the Glam.com network has introduced me to another far-flung crowd of interesting people with daily lives far different than my own.
- Blogging lets me choose the topic, not just passively take my instructions from a client. As a freelance writer/editor in my “day job,” I truly value that boost to the solo spirit.Sharon says it well:
Blogging is a good way of fostering creativity — and of taking a break when I’m mentally exhausted.
- And I blog because it gives me a way to trumpet what I otherwise would have no forum to share — from inspirational artists, cool products, and worthwhile charities — to favourite recipes and how-to tips — to the occasional small happening in my own “real world” life.
- And I blog because I love it, how the blogosphere is always changing, with new communities and new opportunities springing up all the time. It is because of this blog, for example, that I was asked to write for FashionTribes.com, another whole new online vista…Whatever else, blogging — if you are a blogger who gets involved with the broader community, and takes a lively interest in what others are doing and thinking and saying — is never dull!
I tag…
Anyone who’d like to take part and tell us why you’re blogging.
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Great response, Jen. It’s true that my net of blogging/online pals has spread far and wide since the early days of WritingUp. I’ve got friends whom I’ve never met, including your good self, but with whom I can have great conversations about the things that matter to us – and frivolities as well.
I admire your sentiments also Jen. Blogging is a great way to do something productive with you spare time—maybe even inspirational—and in my case at least, is so addictive that it is eating into my not-spare time as well. Most people turn on the tv when mentally drained; bloggers instead turn on the prose, and surely that is a good thing—for them and for the world.
I hear you, John… and from reading your Sensitivity to Things blog earlier today, it’s clear that, although on different continents, we’re in very similar lines of work and both fighting the same delicious distraction of blog-writing at times when we ought to be “productive” in the bread-and-butter sense!
Jen
I know where you are comming from. I blog to get away from it all. I enjoy it a lot.