tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post1333378434802712367..comments2023-03-28T06:55:59.249-07:00Comments on The Zen Of Blogging: Why Blog In The First Place?Lee Wind, M.Ed.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06314692778355984313noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post-39292952149737373422010-06-11T09:37:16.765-07:002010-06-11T09:37:16.765-07:00I have done lots of workshops and mentoring on chi...I have done lots of workshops and mentoring on children's public library services. I started blogging to share some of that info and to try to connect people to resources. I am a truly short attention span person and like my info bites as tidbits (I shudder to think of the discipline to write a book) so the blogging format fits my interests and energy!Marge Loch-Woutershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299355611398291374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post-82472838215500152602010-06-04T08:32:44.011-07:002010-06-04T08:32:44.011-07:00I have to say that although my reason for blogging...I have to say that although my reason for blogging initially was to produce a resource for writers who don't come naturally by optimism and resilience - and to be a resource myself - I find that my "reasons" change as I go on. Of course my main focus is the same. But I choose topics because of what is happening outside and inside of me - what touches or moves me, what makes me think, what makes me want to share my thoughts. <br /><br />It's a fascinating journey...Carol Grannickhttp://theirrepressiblewriter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post-61182413541601687952010-06-03T19:20:39.624-07:002010-06-03T19:20:39.624-07:00I started my blog in an attempt to have something ...I started my blog in an attempt to have something I can point to as a special accomplishment when I finish my library school degree and start interviewing for jobs, that is, if anyone is hiring for children's librarians by the end of 2011! I love to read and I've always been a good writer...I've been reviewing books for Amazon Vine and for an on-line toy journal for over a year. In one of my library school classes we were asked to identify blogs that would be useful for YA librarians. I never realized how many blogs were out there and what people did on them until I did that assignment last year. I felt a little like the character in Chorus Line who sings "I can do that!" when he watches his sister dancing! I realized that I don't have to have finished a library degree to have opinions on books that are just as valid as anyone else out there. I decided to specialize in historical fiction and hope my blog will be useful for librarians, parents, and other people looking for good books for their kids. <br /><br />I've had so much fun so far with my blog--my goal is to get to at least 100 people looking at it on a regular basis within a year (is that a reasonable goal?) <br /><br />My favorite thing so far has been the incredibly nice notes I've received back from nearly all the authors whom I've sent links to my reviews, even people I figured were much too busy to bother responding. I'm saving them in a special file to look at on the days that I despair of ever finding a job as a children's librarian!Fourth Musketeerhttp://fourthmusketeer.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post-9900898482021390732010-06-03T12:17:13.427-07:002010-06-03T12:17:13.427-07:00I started blogging for the same reason that I croc...I started blogging for the same reason that I crochet and write stories: to create something beautiful. (Whether I succeed or not is another matter.)<br /><br />I continue blogging because of all the wonderful people I've met in the blogosphere.fairyhedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14141089706966852951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post-4025953288593382132010-06-03T09:31:03.101-07:002010-06-03T09:31:03.101-07:00I was writing fanfiction for kicks when I started ...I was writing fanfiction for kicks when I started blogging a decade ago. It was mostly to keep in touch with other writers and friends I met through mailing lists. Now that I'm published, I blog about my books, my sources of inspiration, day-to-day stuff, and occasional political things. <br /><br />Blogging can be a real boon to introverts. I'm an extreme introvert (yeah, I am - I'm just so used to looking like an ass online day in and day out). What I can't (or won't) communicate through "normal channels," I blog about. I think it's got a lot to do with the fact that I don't have to respond to a subject right off the bat, like in normal conversation. I have time to sit back and mull things over <i>and then</i> write about it. <br /><br />That's why I suck at all the usual networking sites. Facebook and Twitter all run counter to my <i>modus operandi</i>-esque form of online communication. Yeah, I love blogging. I don't see myself getting off it anytime soon.Haydenhttp://haydenthorne.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5606643739234013836.post-9617640785389984742010-06-03T06:29:12.767-07:002010-06-03T06:29:12.767-07:00I started blogging because my life was falling to ...I started blogging because my life was falling to pieces, and since then it has been a way for me to keep track of those pieces, re-read them and analyze my shortcomings and notice where I made a great decision. My blog is for me, for me to write and have a place to go back to those musings. I enjoy reading others blogs as much as I enjoy writing, and for me the blog is a place to keep everything that happens to me, all my thoughts and plans, together, in one place I can go back to if I need to. And I do, a lot. <br /><br />My blog really doesn't have a theme, and I don't have a lot of followers, but I don't do it for them. Sure I write like I'm talking to someone, but that's just how I choose to do it. I write the things that are most pertinent to my life at the moment or something I think is interesting and would like to share. I also feel like when I get all wrapped up in my own head talking to my blog is a great way to look at things from the outside, which I sometimes have trouble doing.Denisehttp://potter-den.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com