Origin Story

Why did you start your blog? Is that still why you blog, or has your site gone in a different direction than you’d planned?

I began blogging for a few reasons. 

1) I love to write. I've always had a interest in reading with an insatiable appetite for learning about things and people's stories. So I suppose having the desire to read fed my desire to write. I feel that I can communicate the most clearly in writing.

2) I wanted to develop my writing "voice". Blogging gave me great practice at this.

3) I wanted to meet new friends and get to know them on a deeper level than the occasional "hi, how ya doing" level. I was in my "stuck" phase --- feeling like I didn't know many people outside of my church and wishing to connect with others. I figured that since I wasn't popular, I should utilize what I can do (write) to make connections.


Is that still why you blog?

Well, I don't. I don't even journal much anymore. It's a lack of motivation thing which merges into a procrastination thing because I think about writing Very Often.

Also, very few still blog these days so all of the fun interaction isn't the way it used to be. But that shouldn't stop me.