Initially, I thought perhaps blogging would grant me some avenue into organizing my thoughts. You know, maybe by some sort of osmosis or chemical reaction, I'd miraculously stare at this screen, and my thoughts would all magically organize themselves into succinct, coherent blog posts. Turns out, it's not that easy.
Sometimes I just feel like I have TOO many interests. I love comic books and video games. However, I'm not sure if I love them *enough* to form opinions and posts about them. They are what they are. Entertainment. You either love Superman, or you don't. I'm not sure anyone cares *why* I can't stand Spider-Man, and I'm not sure I could find an audience large enough who gives a shit what my opinion on the latest Battlefield map pack is. So my main two "interests" it turns out, aren't all that interesting. At least not interesting enough to write about.
I'm working very hard on getting healthy, but that seems like such a pragmatically personal thing that writing about it would just be a complete waste of time. What's working for me, a 41 year old man who's trying to lose weight, probably won't work for you, because you're not me, you don't share my experiences, and quite frankly, I know you don't really care about how I'm losing weight, or why. I suppose common, everyday blog posts about equipment, food, etc would be appropriate, so I'm considering that as an option, but I'm not feeling all that confident about it. We'll see.
Which leaves me with my real, kinda main preoccupation: Programming. The problem, as I see it, is that I don't much like to write about programming. It's dry (unless you're a programmer) and there are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million blogs devoted to programming and programming techniques. I hardly think I could cover new ground.
So as you see, I'm kinda stuck. I WANT to say something here, but I'm just not sure what it is.
Maybe that's the key. Maybe I'm not SUPPOSED to know what I want to say.
Tell you what. I'm gonna struggle with it, try to put together some nice blog posts over the next few weeks and see where this takes me. I'll see if I can get some sort of "voice" for this place, and see if I can get me some sort of momentum going.
Its because you're manic... manic, I tell you ! ;)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, write about what you want to write about. Write what you feel. If you gather a following, its a bonus... Its not mandatory. For me, its a chance to hear whats going on in your head... y'know, all that shit we used to talk about when we had the chance to hang out and do shit. I've already been turned on to FreakAngels from this blog so the time I spend reading has already been justified to me.
BTW, nobody cares why; they just know that you're f'ed up for not liking Spiderman!
Honestly, I don't know if you need to worry about it so much. Just jack in to your lizard brain and let it rip.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I'm with you right down the line pretty much. I'm also a Grand Strand living 41 year old programmer/comic book fan trying to lose weight and get healthy. We really need to get more Grand Strand Blogger meetups going so we have places for folks to get to know each other.