A couple days ago I read on Flying W Things Brad’s post on his own weblogging. While I am not agains the occasional navel gaze, I beg to different with his conclusions.
IMHO, a weblog should be what it’s creator wants. Audience be damned. If I want to wax on eloquently about an esoteric topic that everyone else find boring, too bad for the world. It’s my farking weblog.
So my opinion for Brad is simple, write what you want, as long as you want. So much of our lives are spent following the rules and expectations of others. Everyone needs a place where they can do what they want with no regard for what others think appropriate.
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You may beg all you like…
Here’s the thing – a weblog is on some level a public document. The blogger may claim it is for them, but if that were really true they would not direct attention to it, or even put it in a place that others could see it. (Dear diary – today I…)
Writing about what you want, how you want, etc., may be good therapy – but if you are doing it in a public venue, you are communicating with your readers – and doing a better job of that is desirable, right? Yes, you are writing for yourself on one hand, but for your readers on the other.
Perhaps I should have left the last paragraph of that post out – upon rereading, I can see how you may think I’m planning to change my style to suit that particular reader comment – I just put that in there as an example of feedback I’ve gotten.
Don’t worry – I will still wax rhapsodic and range across many (admittedly light) topics.
(Such as the cost of pizza dough: homemade vs. Trader Joe’s.)
Of course, Trader Joe’s 99¢ pizza dough is cheaper than homemade…