Six months on
I started this blog six months ago (14th April). So perhaps a good time to reflect.
I began with a rather negative quotation: "Sen vord is thrall and thocht is fre / Keip veill thy tonge I coinsell the." And although I'm sure this blog is revealing in all sorts of ways that I'm not aware of, I know that my reluctance to reveal any personal secrets shows that I'm not a real blogista.
Who am I writing for? I know who a few of my readers are (even if they don't make comments). I do find that I am very reluctant to tell people about the blog - again my natural reticence - so I guess I'm not really writing for an audience. With significant exceptions, I don't generally have a particular reader in mind. Am I writing for myself? In a sense, definitely, but in ways I haven't fully thought through.
Resolutions - make sure I keep the blog up, try to be more personal, and perhaps a little less lazy in some of my less inspired posts.
I began with a rather negative quotation: "Sen vord is thrall and thocht is fre / Keip veill thy tonge I coinsell the." And although I'm sure this blog is revealing in all sorts of ways that I'm not aware of, I know that my reluctance to reveal any personal secrets shows that I'm not a real blogista.
Who am I writing for? I know who a few of my readers are (even if they don't make comments). I do find that I am very reluctant to tell people about the blog - again my natural reticence - so I guess I'm not really writing for an audience. With significant exceptions, I don't generally have a particular reader in mind. Am I writing for myself? In a sense, definitely, but in ways I haven't fully thought through.
Resolutions - make sure I keep the blog up, try to be more personal, and perhaps a little less lazy in some of my less inspired posts.
posted by Tony at 6:08 PM
13 Comments:
Well, congratulations for your fist six months! (so soon...)
Even if only writing for oneself, I think blogs are a way learn more the "author": the voice, the mind, the gut, the nerve behind it.
I don't think you should make any resolutions: every single one of your posts speaks so much about you, even if you do not intend that purposely.
I find no personae here: every time I come and read I find you.
Trying to escape the Censor...
Vanilla, that was ***data error*** days before the Author's birthday!!!
Hilda (first comment) - that's exactly what I'm afraid of! Here I am trying to create an interesting, if entirely false, persona for the world to know me by, and you tell me that everything I post is revealing myself!
And the less said about your second comment, the better.
WHAT!!!!
SHAME ON YOU!!
I WILL NEVER COMMENT ON THIS BLOG AGAIN!!
Well, maybe just to say HOW LOVELY YOU POSTED ALL THAT MUSIC!!
But only that...
GOODBYE!!
Hilda,
You persuaded me (even although comments on blogs should not reveal secrets). I went back to your comment to post it and blogger wouldn't let me! So I'm sorry but it seems I am powerless.
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Hilda's information may be unreliable
She may be misinformed, or have made a mistake
Oh no, she didn't. That information is pretty accurate.
She is a very clever girl, actually.
She is very clever, creative, and imaginative. One should trust everything she says.
Tony,
My remarks are entirely unrelated to the others above--I am commenting in general about your site. I stumbled across you several weeks ago when I googled Fumeux Fume, a "family favorite" that I brought home from an early music class. I just returned to your site today and had to dig for the same information--and found all sorts of interesting things to listen to or look at. I'm actually more of a news junkie (I'm a Democratic political activist in Central Ohio--you're welcome!), but once in awhile I go on a googling jag.
I'll revisit occasionally to see what gems you have up here.
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