Introducing myself to selfish blogging
Ah hah- My first blogging experience that won't always include mention of family or seemingly inconsequential events that are relevant only to me. Well, that last bit might happen quite often. I actually hope it does. It recently came to my attention that blogging need not be with an audience-of-others in mind. This, I hope, will liberate me from my conditioned approach towards writing, which requires each word, each sentence, each idea to be well thought out, reviewed, edited, and transformed before sharing it with an"other". To achieve this, however, I believe it's in my best interest to set up a few personal blogging rules. These rules are intended to encourage the disentanglement of years of self-imposed perfection. What shall they be? I think the first rule must be that I will not edit for audience-in-mind reasons. The second shall be that I am writing for me and me only. The third shall be that the focus of my blogs will be centered on what I find relevant and i...