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September 01, 2005
Finding My Voice
Starting a blog is hard. At least it is for me. After my first post it took me a long time to work up the courage to post again. What should I write about? Everything that came to mind was something that was happening in my life and would be shot down by, "Who's gonna care about that?" or "That's not very interesting, you should try to make it funny." I think the big problem was that I was holding myself to a standard set by Heather Armstrong. I love her writing, like the thousands of other people who go to her site daily - hundreds of thousands, even. I think it's a tall order to expect myself to pump out stuff so incredibly wacky and brilliant at the same time. Even linking to her site starts my inner critic up. "Why are you linking to her site? No one is even reading your site - okay, the two people who are reading it ALREADY KNOW!"
So, I've decided instead to write about whatever comes into my head and not worry about having a consistent voice or linking to things that everyone already knows. If it matters to me, that's all that is important here and my voice will naturally develop over time (with any luck). Isn't that the whole point of blogging?: I'll write about whatever I want - goddammit - and you can't stop me. *evil grin* And to hell with grammatical rules.
Posted by leah at September 1, 2005 04:28 PM