Finding my blogging voice
For a few months now this blog has been in a constant state of flux. The focus has chopped and changed so much that for all intents and purposes I’ve completely lost my blogging voice.
In the beginning, about 3 years ago, I started blogging about my photography and found that it was quite good for my business and gave me a lot of exposure. Back then I blogged very sporadically, there would some times be 2-3 posts a week and then not another for a month. For a while last year I didn’t even blog at all, I put all my effort into I’m With The Band. Then late last year, while on long service leave, I concentrated on getting this blog back on track and began writing a lot. Now I’m at a point where I’m re-thinking why and why I’m blogging.
One thing I absolutely love about blogs in general is that so many people are putting so many interesting ideas, opinions and concepts out into the world. So many of these have taught me a lot about the world, other people and even about myself. I really appreciate what each of those authors are doing. Of late however I’ve noticed more and more people writing the same regurgitated junk that other people are writing, yes the good original stuff stands out but why on earth these other jokers are pushing this crap out there is beyond me.
I never want to be like these people, however I think at times I have been. I can recall a number of posts where I had jumped on the latest advertiser bandwagon that some ‘a-list’ bloggers had written about. I contributed to the noise and junk on the internet. I wont be like that again.
Starting now I’m cutting my blog right back to being a personal diary again. Yes I will lose a whole bunch of subscribers, I’ve actually noticed the numbers decrease recently as I’ve been posting a lot more personal things, but I don’t actually care. I’d rather be blogging in my own actual voice rather than staying aboard the bullshit bandwagon like so many other bloggers out there.
Anyway, I figured I should publicly get this out there as it will help me to stop myself falling back into the junk and noise posting.
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