Have you ever felt like what you were writing was drivel? I've been feeling like that lately, I read the blogs on my roll and to tell you the truth I'm feeling a little under-talented. Tuesday it will have been a year since I started doing this, I stumbled across Zoe's blog by complete accident and it just sort of snowballed from there. I've met lots of people (virtually) that I would never have had the chance to talk to otherwise and it's been alot of fun.
BUT
Lately, I've been reading my blogroll with a more ....open eye, maybe? My gawd, the people I've been reading are just so damn talented. They come up with funny, thoughtful, insightful posts every day and even though I know it's not a competition, I'm wondering if anyone would really miss me if I stopped. I think up great posts, and by the time I'm arsed to put it in the computer. *poof* It's gone and I end up with some lame post about moving. This, btw, is NOT a "oh pity me and stroke my ego so I'll stay" post, I think I'm hooked so I'm probably not going anywhere LOL
Does everyone go through this? This kind of crisis of confidence? I'll have to think up something totally weird from my past to write about so I can make the everyone laugh or something.
8 years ago
24 comments:
I love your blog. I think everything you write is great. Even the stuff you consider "boring" is of great interest to me. So there! :P
Tony
until one tries writing a blog, they have no idea how much work it is. the pressure to produce, the onus on quality. i find myself writing less to compete with other more prolific bloggers like Pax and Justrose. i guess that makes me the Miller Lite of blogdome - Great Taste, Less Filling!
We love your blog too! And yes, we get those very same feelings. Often.
The way I always look at it is like this: I write what I write. Sometimes well, sometimes not so. But it's my writing and people obviously come back because they like it. Even when I'm just ranting about shite.
I (we) come to your blog every day. Sometimes more than once. And we do that because we like it.
You just keep doing what your doing, baby-cakes. Don't worry about your words. They are just great.
NOTHING Iwrite is all that great.
You just wrote a deep, meaningful thing that TONS of people, myself included can relate to.
Just write whatever/whenever you feel. I'll still be here. :)
I go through times exactly like you describe and I often frustrate myself with the drivel I think I write, but I'm not going anywhere either 'cause I too am hooked.
I like your blog regardless of what you write: About moving or not. It's never been boring to me and I seriously doubt it ever will. No ego stroking here, just the facts, ma'am, just the basic facts.
Blogeois
http://www.blogeois.com
i love reading your stuff. it is your marvelous spirit and essence which shines through your gentle, funny, honest, descriptive and earnest writing. the thing i adore most is your humor despite, or perhaps because of, everything. your "LOL" always makes my day.
please keep going! happy blogiversary!
as for whether i ever go through a crisis of confidence, every single day my finger hovers over the delete button. especially now that i've been doing it a year too, i wonder if there's anything else for me to say. the good thing is life just keeps on unfolding so my fingers keep typing.
hi Lost,
i enjoy reading your blog..... sorry i don't respond more often, but i enjoy it just the same.
i feel the same way you do, and leave it for too long in between entries on my blog.
i've joked about my 4 regular visitors, but joking or not, i do think that sometimes.
like you, i'll continue doing it.... but still feel uncertain about it at times. (most of the time, actually)
I don't comment as often as I read, and that's just because I'm lazy. But I do check here every day, and always hope you've written, no matter what.
Personally I enjoy blogs that talk about day to day life more than ones that wax and wane hilarity. It's like checking in with your friends on the phone every day. If my friend just made me laugh laugh laugh every day, I would stop calling.
I want to hear the ups and downs, and I want someone else to listen to *my* ups and downs.
i enjoy your blog immensely, lost. sometimes it's like a fresh slap in the face telling me that i am an extremely lucky woman, considering what you have had to go through.
and i, too, enjoy reading about other people's day-to-day lives as well as the odd 'theme-based' blog.
there is nothing like a blog that tells the truth just as it is.
I've been reading your blog for about six months - and do so because your writing is from the heart. For me it's like sitting down and catching up with an old friend - I want to hear the good, the bad, and the in between.
Each person has their own writing style and "voice". How sad it would be if all blogs were the same. I admire the courage it has to take, for you to be so real in your writing.
Keep doing what you're doing - you won't be able to get rid of your readers !
I'm generally only happy with about one in ten of my posts, the rest I just slap up there and say "that'll have to do". And often the ones I thought were good pass by unnoticed and the ones I thought were awful get the best reaction. I don't think we are very often the best judges of our own work. Keep doing what you're doing, it seems to be working!
Stumbled over here from Pax or Tony's blog - can't remember. Either way, I like reading about your life, even if it is sad events, you seem to be able to smile at things, good sense of humor. I think your blog is fun.
Keep up the good work!
- Virginia Gal
I can understand what you are saying about "blogs out there" as I'm always reading thinking everyone sounds like a professional writer! It's funny you wrote this blog when I was coming here to ask if I could link you to my blog! LOL
So, you'd obviously be missed.
There is nothing at all wrong with your writing (I need to update my blogroll, BTW) and we all do go through this. Sometimes there really is nothing to say, and taking nothing and turning it into a witty or insightful post takes a bit of talent and lots of hallucinagens.
Kidding!
I can remember starting my blog. I decided that I had lots to share - opinions on politics, funny stories, commentary on current events... I'd never run out of material! Like I said, though, sometimes there really isn't anything to say.
Kat
Kat's right you know.... hallucinagens really do get the blogger creative juices flowing!
....or so I've been told.
wow, Lost, I think your fan base here is reason enough to feel you are doing a great job! I was going to add to this and say gee, I think I know what you mean. I mean, I'm fairly new to blogger, I did live journal for years....I use it for a diary more or less, a way to release the angry thoughts in my head before I literally go out and kill my family. I feel small and insignificant to the blogs I read too, especially since quite a few of them have mentioned how they hate whining teenaged journal based writing. I feel that they must be talking about me. then i say, ah well, i'm here to write, my greatest passion. Too bad if they hate it, they can turn me off. I am curious though how many hits I get a day, will have to get a counter. do you have one? that might help. even tripe is worth reading about from you. I never phone, but i read at least once a day!
Having readers is a new thing for me at my blog. When you first started writing, do you remember not having readers? When posting in your blog was just for you? That's how it should be, in my opinion. If others read you, and find you interesting, that's a great bonus. But, the most important thing is your self expression! That's how I treat my blog, as a gift, to myself.
Oh, and btw, I like your blog a lot! Bonus, eh? :)
-Justin
Hi Lost,
I am always obsessing about what to write next,and usually have to do it twice because I end up deleting the first one...
This is a hard gig
There is nothing wrong with your post! I don't visit that often, but I am so busy I don't have the time to visit everyone every day.
I work long hours then come home with burned out brain, so my posts are rather boring. I think we all go through a time that we feel like shutting down the computer once in awhile.
You're right on the money, Lost. It's a strange thing to feel the pressure to produce! But that's part of why I personally made my diary public, so that I would be forced to produce rather than letting things just fall away. It keeps you thinking, creative, and hey, we all get to meet up and chat! :)
Hello sweetpea.
Just dropped in for a nosey.
See how many of us have crawled out of the woodwork to say "KEEP IT UP!!!"
You have many more friends out here than you realize :) We's miss you if you went away.
It is normal there LOST, so dont worry about it. Blog for yourself and no one else.
Write it and they will come!! ;)
As many links as you want!
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