Quoted from http://professordyke.blogspot.com, who is a very interesting read:
"My reasons for blogging (both pseudonymously and otherwise) are numerous and complicated, but in either case, I do know that I blog to engage in a public and informal mode of writing, to interact with an on-line community, and because it's fun. To be allowed a glimpse into other people's lives through the window of their blogs is endlessly fascinating to me. (Especially since I'm a writer, and therefore, a bit of a hopeless voyeur).
"And while I'm comfortable and pleased to have readers look inside the window of my blog, I certainly wouldn't want them actually standing around my real-life house, peering into the windows, and perhaps it's this metaphor of internet vs. real-life windows that best articulates my desire to blog pseudonymously."
Other things she writes are also pure genius. I am now currently battling an internal struggle of sorts concerning what to do with this stupid little blog of mine, again. In the end, all I want to do is write well, and the reason I stopped talking about my own life and myself was because I felt like that kind of self-indulgence wasn't allowing me to write well, and was causing the imagination-muscles in my brain to atrophy. But then I read these other blogs where the writers write about their own lives so easily, simply, elegantly, interestingly, and articulately, that it just blows my misconception of what writing "well" is out of the water.
So now I don't know what to do with this blog.
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Hey FOOL! You write really well, so quit your whining. I actually like your stuff better than her's (at least that one excerpt you put up for us). Got it?
Why not write whatever you feel like? Like Berni does. It could be a mixture of self-indulgence, music reviews, and creative writing.
And if I can go off-topic: those pictures of your China trip make me want to take a trip there myself.
Hmm, see I personally think you're on the right track.
After all, it's all in the eye of the beholder - you can't really decide whether other people find what you write interesting or not, so just go with what you yourself find worthy of writing.
I've taken a few minutes from writing my resume to read some of your blog entries and I find your blog very entertaining. I hope you keep it up!
I feel you. Embrace the fear, kiss it off, and write your guts out. That seems to work most of the time.
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