I have started at least three or four blogs in the past four years. And by "started" I mean I registered to start them, and never actually wrote anything.
Like other social networking tools--Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc--I always feel like these are forums for people to just blather their thoughts out into the universe in hopes that someone (please?) will listen. Always feels a little pathetic at the start.
I'm always slow to get on the newest social network bandwagon. I've primarily done it to promote my businesses and my art (the one blog I own which has any content on it is for The Slutcracker--and I admittedly hire other people to manage it). But I can't deny that I have engaged in very thoughtful discourse via the cyber social network...and said discourse often leads to further face-to-face discourse. So for that, it is certainly worth it.
So why a blog? I suppose for no other reason than that every now and then I have a bit more to say than will fit in a status update, be it a short story, a monologue, a poem, a letter to the editor, etc., which up 'til now I have shared as notes or "blogs" on Facebook or MySpace. I may eventually decide to archive those all here. We'll see how motivated I get.
The purpose of this blog? I realize many blogs have dedicated subject content. This here blog will just serve to spew out random noise that is swirling around in my brainhole (you're welcome, Aaron). If someone reads it, great. If someone likes it great. If not, I'm OK with that. I have no problem admitting that this blog is primarily self-serving in that it's a forum for me to blather my thoughts out into the universe. And I'm OK if they never land anywhere.
So there you have it. My first for-realsies post is in the works. Feel free to to read it once it's up, or not. No offense taken either way.
Excess and Ohs,
Sugar D
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