The Joy of Blogging
Where has the joy gone? I started my first blog back in 1999, I think. It was at Diaryland and I wrote for the simple pleasure of writing. I wrote to express myself and to share my life with my friends. And, to make new friends as I networked carefree on the other Diaryland blogs.
Most of the blogs I read these days are hard core efforts that talk endlessly about Page Rank, making money, and getting links. It is exciting to be able to learn these things from other bloggers, but I often get a little anxious as I read some of the blogs. They are intense bits of blogging. There is a certain desperation behind the style and the language. Adrenaline is surging and the stakes are so amazingly high. Money money money. It’s a mad dash to make a million while you sleep until noon and order in pizza. And while I will never condemn that aspiration, I do get a tad weary of the pace those bloggers keep.
I like reading the power blogs. Don’t get me wrong. I’m just a little nostalgic for the days of blogging for the sake of blogging. Or, as we used to call it – keeping an online journal.
As far as Suncoast Scribe goes, I have not decided what route I will go in monetizing it. I’ve not added any advertising networks yet and am not sure if I will. I take very few paid blogging assignments here, as I post less often on this blog and do not want to interrupt the balance. Besides, I still have not found my footing, or my niche, so to speak.
In any case, I certainly hope I keep the tone of this blog a little more leisurely than most of what you might find online. Please, let me know if my tone ever stresses you out! That’s not my goal here.