Everyone goes through the ‘blogger phases’. That’s what I’d like to call it.
First – read a random blog and decide you want to start doing it too.
Then create one and publish your first random post, and then go on just hunting down blogs, friends or random connections that you find interesting enough that you might want to come back to.
Once you’re done having spent enough time doing just that, then you start commenting- that you are a fellow blogger too, and maybe, in good time, you’ll begin too.
Then of course, you start blogging, first only for the comments, the initial posts will make sense and then nothing will. Ofcourse also mentioning how horribly you write.
Relax, everyone goes through it.
Then you blog comment, blog comment.
Then you find the blogs that you know you will follow. Not just to be doing it for the sake of them commenting or anything, but more because you want to read those blogs.
Then blogging will become an addiction.
Then you will let go.
Then you will truly understand why you blog
Oh, yeah. And somewhere in between you’ll call it writer’s ‘bloc’ too.
Vertigo Head said
The inability to write anything often gets on my nerves. I think that is when I end up producing pure crap. You could do that too as long as our lives and friends don’t depend on how and what we write. Don’t let the bloc get to you. You go and post stuff you’d not want to read twice. It’s been working me for long now.
Venom said
@ Vertigo Head
A bad, bad writer said
It’s interesting to read someone with a blog built on a foundation of randomness putting out some pretty intelligent thoughts in a coherent manner, all the while aware of the fact that the post is not connected to you in any way.
Now that longwinded sentence was an example of the inability to write anything.
Prasoon said
totally agree!!
you did not mention about url chaging?
blogs are actually a mirror to your life and what you’re going through. You change and then you change your blog url’s too – this one is my 4th change in 4 years