Personal blogging best

It's taken me a year, but this month I did it:  I managed to blog each and every day in November.

Not without a few real snoozers, I might add, and not without a little finessing (i.e., sometimes when I had a moment I'd write an entry and date it for publication the next day, knowing that when the next day came, I'd be too slammed to get online to post).

But I did it.

For me, as a writer/professor, regularity in writing (of any kind) is important in keeping the creativity and the flow of words going -- even when it's of the really informal, blogging variety that I do here, even when the blog itself is of no particular importance.  This is a space I created and maintain for myself, with the awareness that others peek into it now and then and share their thoughts with me.

There's always a fair amount of solipsism involved in blogging and the rather presumptuous assumption that there will be others out there who are interested in one's thoughts (otherwise why not just keep a personal diary?). For me in this space, blogging occupies a zone somewhere between the personal diary and the more formal essay -- I write more carefully here than I do in a diary, but this blog has also replaced any diary I used to keep.

Let's see how I do in December.

Comments

[Donna]

Kinda one of the reasons I decided to come clean about some things... my blog is the only place I write about challenges I have. There is a certain amount of security that comes with anominimity, so I feel okay about writing.

I, for one, am glad that you do share -- I enjoy reading you... even the snoozers. :)

[emma]

Neat accomplishment, Deluzy!

And I have enjoyed reading every one of your posts.

[*S*]

Good on you, Deluzy!