I love blogs. I currently subscribe to 176 blogs, and I’m always on the lookout for more. I read them every day, and I love just about everything about them. This is why I decided to start my own blog last summer. (See? See that one post I did in August? I’m big time.)
I told everyone that I was starting a blog, had a plan, everything. Then I posted once. Once.
One other thing about blogs. No one I know reads blogs like I do. No one. I can’t believe that everyone isn’t as obsessed as I am-there are such great stories and ideas out there! I mean, I know there are people out there that read as many, or more, than I do. They just aren’t among my friends and family.
So I kind of view the blogosphere as “my world”.
Now, the blogs I enjoy are the blogs that have a definite voice. The kind of blog where you feel like if you met the person writing and didn’t know who they were, you would say, “Hey! You sound just like the person that writes such-and-such blog. Is that you???” The kind of blog where you can tell there is a real person sitting there, writing, expressing their authentic selves and sharing with all us regular folk.
I think this is the reason I only posted once. I posted, went back and read it, and didn’t like it. It didn’t capture my true voice. So I stopped. I continued reading blogs.
Recently I found a few new blogs, subscribed, and continued reading. Then I made a realization. These new blogs-3 to be exact- were following a kind of formula. I’m not going to go into the details of it, but once I realized what they were doing, all of the authentic-ness that they were supposedly trying to express and establish, flew out the window. It seemed like they were trying to connect to their audience by following this certain formula, but instead were alienating me. It seemed like a ploy-
“Here look at me! Read this revealing authentic post!” followed up by, “Oh, and check out all these new items in my etsy shop!! Cuteness!” Blech.
“Here look at me! Read this revealing authentic post!” followed up by, “Oh, and check out all these new items in my etsy shop!! Cuteness!” Blech.
Which made me realize. I may not have my “blog voice” yet, but I can be a heck of a lot more authentic than that. I’m not sure where I want this blog to go-if I want it to be just a way to document my life and what’s going on with my family, or if I want to connect with other crafty moms who love to laugh and try new things. And I guess at this point I don’t have to know. I’m going to do my best to be authentic, and find my voice, and I’ll find my way from there. Hope you’ll come along.
Oh, and check out these items in my etsy shop…………..;)
