A different blog
I’ve been reading alot of blogs lately, and I realize that I know absoultely nothing about blogging. I’ve been doing online journaling for years(anyone remember diaryland?), and I realize that my blog is nothing more than just a place for me to complain about the sad state of my life, and I really didn’t intend for it to be. I’m not sure what I want it to be, but it has to be more than what it’s been lately. Yes, my life does blow, but that’s not all that’s in my head. I just need to figure out how to get what’s in my head out into this blog. But, I need some advice. I’d like to know about how to post videos and pictures, and ways to just make this place…pop.
Any ideas you’ve got would be appreciated!
Blogger has push-button photo and video blogging, not sure about what’s under the hood of wordpress. ask my roommate
But for ideas, sometimes I save things in draft before I publish them. Some stuff starts as merely a sentence or a few bulleted ideas to be fleshed out later. But you know my blog isn’t really a true blog, and 99% of what I post is uninteresting, self absorbed blabbering. So my only advice for any kind of writing is… start. Do it now and do it often. You’ll only get better with time. And eventually you’ll find your groove and style.
And lets face it, anything you do is gonna pop.
Hey, chica, maybe I’m being way too serious, but I think you ought to decide what kind of blog you want. Will it be a chatty, this is my day, kind of thing? Will it be a see-how-my-life-sucks jeremiad? Or will it be a heres-another-profound-bit-of-wisdom-for-you type? Guess you gotta figure out who you want your audience to be. Chatty people aren’t gonna read heavy philosophical stuff, and people seeking truth in life won’t wanna read about you eating a burger at Sonic. I suppose real life is made up of all those things, but when I’ve read your stuff or your statuses on Facebook, I walk away thinking “that poor, poor girl”. Probably not what you had in mind.
Hey, and as a totally unsympathetic kind of guy, I’d say if you’re unhappy with parts of your life, CHANGE them! Take one thing at a time — your roommate, your job, your attitude, your prayerlife, your love life, your TV viewing habbits, whatever — and start changing it into what YOU want it to be. No one can make your life for you. It’s all in your own hands (and God’s too, of course). Take control of it, or it will take control of you.
Just my cold-hearted two cents worth. But I’d really love to see you come back to that happy, vibrant, quick-witted, whiplash dynamo I caught glimpses of not so long ago.