I’m not yet entirely sure what this blog is supposed to be about, but I figured I would start off writing down some interesting (to me!) thoughts I had during a day, or posting reviews of whatever medium it was I consumed recently. I’ve always had this idea in the back of my head to start a blog, but was always deterred because I thought I would need to attract people’s interest in mine. Turns out, I can just start typing right into the void without there having to be some kind of blogging endgame involved. What actually gave me the final nudge in the right direction was reading Gretchen Rubin’s ’the Happiness project’. It gave me the courage to start this without a well defined goal. For now, I just have the aforementioned vague ideas about book/movie reviews and jotting down my thoughts and I hope that those things alone give me enough incentive to keep going, or provide me with a clearer goal in the future.
Come to think of it, while writing this down I’m getting some long term ideas for this blog already.
The way I make certain decisions informs me about what I want to be/have/buy. Without consciously thinking about it, I’ve started given myself some rules to follow whenever I want to buy something. For instance, if I see a particularly nice sweater, I’ll only allow myself to buy it if I keep thinking about it. If something stays on my mind, apparently it is something that might be important to me and I will indulge myself a little bit. I know, it’s hardly a profound piece of life advice but it has worked for me to keep myself from impulsively buying things I don’t need. So, taking this rule of mine – only buying something if I keep coming back to it – I realized there is a bit more to it. I keep coming back to the idea of writing a blog, so even if I have doubts about whether or not it will be succesfull (whatever that might mean, let’s get back to that some day), apparently I must like the idea enough. Why not do it? In the same vain I keep coming back to the idea of writing a book. I love reading, thinking about literature, engaging in discussions about books, and I have a need to write down things that I’m thinking about. Why then, should I not try writing a book? It would certainly be an interesting life experience, regardless of the outcome. Now, how does that bring us back to our blog goal? Well, apparently I want to also try my hand at writing a book. So, using this blog as a jumping board for writing would make a lot of sence for several reasons. Firstly, I could definitely use more practice writing anything at all if I want to write a cohesive piece of literature. Secondly, I’ve always wanted to condense my life experiences and thoughts into something that would become my theory of existence. Right now I have a way of living and doing things that is inherently mine, but it is more of a vague feeling than it is a clear-cut path of approaching things. Would it not be nice to condense all these ideas and see if I can’t find some fallacies or hidden truths about my way of life? By writing down these ideas in a blog format, I give myself an easilly catalogued portfolio of written pieces. Finally, I think blogging consistently will provide my with the inspiration necessary to keep on writing. Often when I thought about being an author I felt like I needed a big, clearly defined plan of what it was I was going to write, but such plans take time, research, trial-and-error, corrections and sometimes incineration. In other words, it’s good to have an idea when writing, but you can only get so far by thinking about writing. Someone needs to do the actual writing. I guess that’s where I’m at right now.
This first post appears to be a bit of rambling, but the process of thinking about all of the above crystalised into some kind of idea. Let’s see how it holds up in the future. For now, thank you for joining me on my first step in the journey to blogging and writing!
R
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