The new guy
Oh, I know I promised more words after the weekend... Somehow I always feel a little lazy and a 'bad blogger' when my blog posts consist of more images than words, while of course the effort of taking a proper picture can be as big as writing a good text. Cause I don't know what it is with photography... Each time I think I start to master it a bit I end up with a hundred terrible pictures again, and feel I can start from scratch!
Though I've always laughed a bit about this 'bloggers incrowd' with all their talking about the nature of blogs, what they should be like, what the rules and do's and don'ts are and all that, lately I found myself thinking about the kind of blogs I like and the way I make mine. Do the blogs I like have something in common? Am I creating the kind of blog I like, I mean: would I read my own blog? (Yeah, of course I do now, but I mean: if I weren't me ;)) Are there any rules for good blogging? How to keep yourself and your readers happy? Or shouldn't the latter be an issue at all?
It's funny that I always feel I should write interesting posts with elaborate text, and not just post pictures, while at the same time I check a lot of blogs just for their beautiful images, without even reading the texts carefully. Which makes me feel a little guilty at times: like I don't pay enough attention to the effort people take to write about their work, their lifes... I admire people who are super-social even in the virtual world: showing real interest, leaving nice comments, keeping up with what other people are working on...
Of course I know it's not obligatory to keep up with all the blogs in the world, but it's a fact that there are a lot of good ones of nice people who work hard on creating a blog worth reading, so how to select which ones you follow? Do you read only the best writers, the alike personalities, the amazing artists? What makes you wanna read about a stranger's friends and family, the process of creating art, someone's arbitrary opinion on an arbitrary subject? What makes you come back?
I can read blogs of people that fascinate me, but whose personalities really annoy me at the same time, while I can feel bored with blogs of people that make the most beautiful artwork or seem super nice persons. I can care for one person's sick dog (though in general I don't like dogs), while other people's dog stories are way too much for me. It's a bit of getting touched by something somehow and a lot of coincidence I guess. Like some of you may be reading all this, while others just look at the photos of this cute new bear-guy that I purchased at etsy shop Stitchface the other day. Which was actually all I wanted to show you, before I started feeling lazy about my lack of words lately...
Comments
I definitely think you should write! Not everybody can read everything, but some people will always read what one writes and maybe become inspired by it?
Trudi