The Making of a Blogger

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I haven’t posted much here, have I? That’s actually not too bad a thing. I have been getting a lot of work done on my other blogs. I just haven’t documented them all that well here.

But my Reviews in Haiku blog continues to slowly build traffic, which is cool. And I can’t bring myself to turn my back on my writing, so Making of a Writer will see a resurrection in the next few days, as well. And so will Restless Slumber, by blog for rants. (Sometimes something come to my attention that I just want to spout off but the other blogs aren’t really the place for it.)

Anyway, look for more activity in the upcoming weeks.

Well, I finally got my act together enough to get my first blog launched. The design is done, and now I just need to start generating the content. Doing regular typed posts won’t be too bad, but the core mission of this blog will be to teach people a hobby through the use of podcasts and videos. Producing those will take a bit longer. Getting closer, though!

This blog isn’t exactly off to a bang-up start, is it? Sorry about that. It’s the perfectionist in me. While trying to get my blogs off the ground, I’m researching, reading, choosing and tweaking themes, doing more reading… I’m doing a lot to make sure everything is just right for the blog launch.

Which is valid, on one hand, but just stalling, on the other.

There comes a time when it needs to be good enough and just go. Things can always be tweaked/optimized/fixed/whatever later.

So I should finally get a new blog launched this week. Yes, one. Launching 9, or however many I said in the last post, is just stupid. Doing it all at once, at least. One step at a time.

Look for the launch announcement here.

…exactly.

Well, it is. But it’s not going to be one of those how-tos that are (thankfully) all over the place. Instead, this is going to be a blog about me learning to be an actual blogger.

I know. That helps a lot.

You see, I’ve actually already started started 4 blogs, not counting this one. One never really took off at all, one didn’t really have a lot going for it, one was a result about me being wildly overoptimistic about being able to keep it going, and one, well, I actually stay on top of that one and update it regularly. But there’s not a whole lot to it. I’ll discuss each these in more detail in the future, when appropriate topics present themselves. I only mention them now as examples of blogs that didn’t quite work.

So I’m trying again. And, really, my plans are pretty optimistic and might be setting me up for more failure. My current plan is to launch 6–yes, six–blogs. That sounds like a lot, but 4 of them are basically multiple facets of one blog, so, in a way, I’m “just” launching three.

Okay. Four, counting this one. This one will be the “journal” blog. I’ll use this one to discuss what I learn about blogging from setting up and publishing the others.

I’m pretty much a blogging newbie, toying around with it for a while. Now it’s time to get serious about it. I’ll let you know how it goes.

If any of you are also starting,or have recently started, blogs, please let us know in the comments. Let’s take this trip together.