I was listening to a podcast today that mentioned content creation, writing, coming up with ideas, and blogging. Having written close to 1100 posts for this blog, and with all the other stuff I have created, I’m an old hat at content creation and appreciated the discussion very much. They talked about how important it is to trust your voice, to write for yourself. I thought, “Yes! I do that in my blog!”
A key quality of making this blog my own has been giving myself maximum freedom of expression. I show different sides of myself: writer/thinker, artist, composer, piano teacher, husband, runner, student of the Law of Attraction…even personal finance enthusiast!
When I first started my 365 blogging project, I made up my mind to put no restriction of what topics I chose to write about. From that moment, the blog has consistently been a catch-all of “whatever Chris feels like writing that day.”*
It has been helpful to the daily blogging process–nay, downright pragmatic–not having to stick to one topic. As I fish in the milky lagoon for ideas, whatever I happen to “catch” that day is fair game as long as it is basically on the positive side. A broad choice of writing topics and formats has helped me post consistently.
I definitely have the writing for myself part down. But writing to an audience? This blog may deserve the (self-bestowed) title “most versatile blog,” but it’s largely been written in a bubble. I confess I have sometimes wondered if the blog is too versatile to be “popular.”
What do I know? All I know is that, all in all, it has served me to do this blog my way.
*It’s probably not unusual for a personal blog. Actually, I wouldn’t know. Believe it or not, I’ve never read another personal blog 🙁