Amy Horn's Blog

Posted by Amy Horn Jan 1, 2007

So, one of my many New Year's Resolutions was to improve my blogging. And it's not just the frequency or content but it's the process itself I want to work on. You see, blogging is an interesting concept to me--a concept I like in theory but am leary of in practice. Because in theory, when I blog, I should be sharing my ideas and thoughts and feelings and really, there is no right or wrong to it. That's that part I like. But in practice, when others read my blog, they will have their own reactions to my ideas and thoughts and feelings--at least I hope they will--and then it seems like my words might become right or wrong or offensive or intrusive or simply invalid. That's the part I don't like. So, I find myself censoring my blogs, planning my blogs, and organizing my blogs so that they're basically not blogs--they're informal articles.

That's why my goal is to work on how I blog as well as how long and how much I blog. We'll see if it gets easier with time or better or maybe just more natural. And eventually, instead of trying to come up with clever concluding sentences for my blogs, I'll be able to end the blog when it's time to end the blog--in other words, when I'm out of thoughts.

I'm out.