I have completed six full months of blog posts. My first post went live on May 6, 2015. Since then I have posted twenty-six articles
to my site. I thought it would be
fitting to do an assessment of my project at this milestone. I want to acknowledge what I have done so
far, and to share what I want to do next.
Looking back at my initial post, I outlined three reasons
for beginning this blog. So how am I
doing at fulfilling those goals? The
first reason I gave was to practice writing, to improve the amount of time I
spent doing it and to improve my quality.
I definitely write more because I am forced to do it every week so I can
post something. I have not missed a week
yet, although there have been a couple rather short blogs. I have not been very successful in writing
more outside of the blog though. I have
a couple pages written of a novel, but I just cannot seem to get the time and
motivation lined up to work on it consistently.
As far as quality goes, I probably am not the best judge of my own work
and I have received no outside feedback on anything posted. However, I can say that there are blogs I
like and blogs that I think were not very well done.
The second reason I gave was to use this space as a way to
work through my life. I do not think I have
accomplished much in this aspect of the project. Although some of my blogs border on
introspective, more of them are observational about life happening around me. There are two main reasons I have not
followed through with more journal-like entries. First, I am a little timid about putting too
many personal details out there. I am
afraid of the consequences if people I know are not thrilled with some of the
things I think. The other reason is that
I am avoiding answering the questions inside myself. There are many things in my life that I need
to examine and change if I am going to be happy, but I do not have the
confidence to do so. While I still leave
my blog designated as a place to work through my issues, it might not be as
often or as open as I originally envisioned.
The last reason was to entertain others. Although I cannot know for sure, my guess is
that I have not accomplished this goal at all.
My blog posts all have two to four views, and I am fairly certain these
are Googlebots archiving the information.
I have no followers, no shares, no comments, no indication that anyone
real has actually read anything I have written.
I have not told anyone I am writing a blog, and I have not marketed
myself online in any way. Therefore, I
am relying on someone randomly stumbling upon the blog. The chances of that happening are fairly
slim, so I know that I currently have little chance of fulfilling this
goal. If I truly want some readers, then
I am going to need the confidence to actually put myself out there and let
people know that I have written something.
Where do I go from here?
For now, I think the important thing is to keep writing. While I might not be well-read, I am a
published writer and that is more than I used to be. I want to try to do better about giving my
blogs the time they deserve, so that I am truly proud of all of them. Additionally, I want to focus on learning
more about the Blogger site and what it can do.
I have done little to explore the available features and use them to make
my blogs unique. I also want to set up
my Google+ profile, so that there is actually a real prolife attached to the
name posted to my blogs. Maybe, if I am
feeling adventurous, I will even take the first steps in letting others know
there is a blog out there that they can read.
Blog 27 is done. Here
is to another six months. See you next
week!
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