If I'm missing someone, or if you're feeling inspired to join this lenten blog renewal, drop a link in the comments! I'll be including a link to this post in all my blog posts until Easter.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Getting the Band Back Together
A number of inter-connected bloggers, nostalgic for the old days of St. Blog's and somewhat fed up with the pace and furor of modern social media, have committed to renewing or restoring old blogs or beginning new ones to correspond with the beginning of the season of Lent.
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This list will be a helpful resource for me, since I can't count on FB for updates during Lent. :)
I just need to find my sunglasses...
MrsD, FB never shows me what I want to see anyway!
AHS, how's this?
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I gave up the blog but I miss my peeps who go dark for lent.
So, something I noticed from trying to blog again this morning:
1. I've forgotten how.
2. I think I stopped because, in the end, I was tracking page views, trying to monetize, and trying to create a platform. I came back briefly as a way to write fiction, but then dropped it when I had too much work, and felt guilty for messing up the schedules. And those all sapped the joy out of blogging.
So, for now on, I think I'm going to keep professional anything on LinkedIn and keep the blog as just... random musings. At least until I relearn the craft of blogging for blogging, and not for content for clients and search engines.
@Deirdre, monetization definitely sapped all the joy out of my blogging. You know that thing going around Facebook last week about how "you don't have to monetize your hobbies"? It turns out that I can't monetize my hobbies without killing them. I admire the people who can.
You know how sometimes, in the middle of a FB conversation, you find yourself wanting to wrestle with an idea or set of connections suggested by something someone else said---so you leave a string of comments that people either ignore (TL;DR!) or assume is targeted at someone in particular? If you redirect some of that to your blog, I think it will be fantastic reading!
Kate, That's great advice. I cannot count the number of times strings of Facebook comments became the germ of a blog post. Because it became really obvious that what I was really doing wasn't having a conversation, but trying to work out what I thought about a topic, by writing about it. I wish I had the self awareness to notice in the moment and stop blathering at people instead of talking with them. But lots of my best blog posts started as Facebooking moments gone crazy. If I've got that much to say, then maybe it's time to step back and write at greater length and maybe even craft and shape my thoughts a little more.
Hey! Came here because of a link to me on your sidebar, but yeah, count me in. I've never stopped blogging and never really thrown myself into social media in a substantive way, but recently I've concluded that blogs are *not* dead and deserve "revival." Of course I will be working out why...in a blog post. Thanks!
Hi, I'm late to the party, but would you please add my blog to the list? It's a nothing blog about whatever, but I'm a faithful Catholic mom with thoughts worth writing. Thanks!
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