A blogger by any other name

Posted on | May 26, 2009 | No Comments

The crazy thing about blogging – you have to keep writing! It’s like there’s constantly a deadline, only with no ranting editor yelling in your face. I should be used to it, but I’m always surprised when I realize I haven’t posted in x many days. “Oh – I should post again? But I just did!”

Not that this blog is a chore. Quite the opposite in fact. I guess it’s just that I have my little notebook filled with ideas and no clue how to jump and start writing. Sure, I can think up ideas all day long. It’s putting them into words, making those words into sentences, then coming up with some paragraphs that’s difficult.

If you know me in “real life,” then you know that I rarely do things rashly. Most of the times, I overthink and overanalyze. My typical decision-making process is drawn out and extended until it almost doesn’t matter what I choose, as long as I finally make up my mind. But every now and then, I’ll act spontaneously. I’ll just go and do something, without giving it a lot of thought. Guess which category this blog falls under?

Over at the You Should Only Know blog, Erica writes about a similar situation, in which she started a blog without quite thinking about what she wanted to write about first. She came across the term “lunch-time blogger,” which she describes thusly:

I was reading a new-found great blog called “Plight of the Pumperknickel” and she had an awesome post about being a “Lunch Break Blogger” which she defines as a “blogger who discusses things that occur to him or her on a lunch break.”

Erica goes on to talk about how she blogs, which I found a lot like me: composing posts while waiting on lines or on the subway (or, since I live in Boston, on the T), etc. I’m not sure if I fall under the “lunch-time blogger” category, but I do know that writing whatever comes into my head is a good place to start. I’d like to think my blog would somehow be simultaneously witty and thought-provoking, but honestly? I’m not always witty or thought-provoking, so the best you’re going to get is me – for better or worse, flaws and all, with some bad posts (see: this one) and some not-so-bad posts.

In retrospect, this almost seems like a completely pointless post now. But as Kim (from Perfectly Cursed Life) pointed out in a comment on Erica’s post:

There’s no need to self-identify all the time, but it’s hard not to in the blogosphere, isn’t it?

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