I have been toying with the idea of starting an online blog for sometime, but there were always two things holding me back:
- My lack of knowledge about how to acheive this. There seem to be so many tools, some free, some paid for, some that use templates (like this one) and some that you would have to create and host yourself. For someone who works in IT I have very little knowledge of how these things work!
- What if no-one read what I had written? Or worse still, what if they read it and didn’t like it?
Then one day I had an epiphany. Why am I writing what I am writing? Am I writing to tell others? Or am I doing it for myself. I realised it was the latter, as I would guess is the case for most people. That would explain why there are so many unpublished blogs floating around in cyberspace. It’s the process that’s enjoyable. Of course, as I have discovered, it is an unexpected and welcome bonus when people do read it and can take something positive from it.
Anyway, I digress. My original plan was to post random musings about my life, my family, parenthood, you know all the usual things. I also wanted to share the things I enjoy, be it music, films, tv, comics, whatever. However, because my first post was such a behemoth and tackled what I would guess most people would consider quite a serious issue, I now feel under pressure to continue in the same vein. You’ll be pleased to know that I won’t!
I will continue to post random blogs on random subjects at random times, but expect it to be interspersed with all sorts of other crap that may interest/amuse/revile/bore you.
A friend of mine told me that when I was younger I was always too worried about what other people thought of me. Well, this is me standing up and saying “Yeah, here I am and this is what I’m about. Come and give me your best shot”.
But please don’t shoot me.
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