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Thursday, September 14, 2006
10:52 PM Bloggers One of the handy things about having a personalised Google homepage is having those handy quotes and tips of the day: How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger http://www.wikihow.com/Dissuade-Yourself-from-Becoming-a-Blogger What a buzz all the bloggers are making these days! It seems like just about everybody is pouring their musings into a text box. Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend. Steps 1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that. Hey! The point is people only read blogs that they like. I mean, who would read anything that they hate? Oh... erm... me. Sorry, I hate the Daily Mail with a passion, but if I ever see a copy at the barbers or in the lounge at work then I can't help but have a little flick through. Come on, what other paper would have both "Second homes turning rural villages into ghost towns" and "Win! £500,000 house in the Cotswolds! See Page 9"? 2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.Oh yeah? I'll have you know that I got several comments from random people offering to, and I quote, "boost the volume of your ej@cul@tion or your money back!"?? Well, at least until I got word verification put in. 3. Write on a regular basis in a text editor instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. Erm.. I'm a Leo, I'm ALWAYS craving attenion and validation (not that I believe in any of that rubbish, but my Metro horoscope was particularly accurate today; it turns out that I did face a challenge of some form). If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space. 4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. Writing several paragraphs about my mug at work and Photoshopping pictures of Lily Allen with bugs crawling out of her mouth? Yeah, I *think* I've got enough time to spend on a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? I don't have a tree. Or the book you wanted to write? The Chufty sitcom? A case a fear of failure that stopped me doing it. Or the car you wanted to fix up? HELLO? I fixed my car,: look. Or the restaurant you wanted to take your significant other to? Er, have you tried taking anyone out when they've got a restraining order against you? It's not that easy. Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Living the dream, baby. Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. I'd much rather read about someone 'outing' a cartoon character from the 80s than anything 'worth doing'. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it. A-HA! I'm having fun writing my blog, and I'm having so much fun doing it that I'm tearing myself away from it and writing about it on my blog. Your MUM. Glad I got that off my chest. Leave a comment ::
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