The Friday Five ...
Five Reasons I'm Not a Great Blogger
In the spirit of the Friday Five rules, I'm going to keep itto five reasons, but believe me, there are many more.
1) The only things I ever manage to do on anythinglike a daily basis are eating and sleeping and drinking tea. Seriously. I can'teven add "showering" in there.
2) I realized a long time ago, reading over oldjournals and diaries from high school, that I journal most when I'm unhappy ortrying to figure something out. And because I came to blogging throughLiveJournal, blogging sometimes still feels, to me, like an online journal.
Except I don't want to bore anyone with thedetails of a crappy day spent cleaning up cat pee and unearthing the floor inmy kid's bedroom and rocking back and forth, convinced that I will never againwrite a word that anyone in his or her right mind would want to read. Because Ican't imagine anyone wants to read that but me, and I honestly don't want toread it much either.
3) Fiction is my true writing love. Fiction is howI solve problems, and work out the kinks in my brain's wiring, and understandthe way I feel about the world. And it's somehow easier to do it with fictionalpeople than it is for Amy, the writer/mom/wife/friend/daughter, to do it *as*Amy, writing about her own thoughts, at least coherently or stylishly. Soblogging sometimes leaves me a little befuddled, unless I'm linking to someoneelse's thoughts and saying, "Yes! This!"
4) It's really easy to dance like no one is watchingwhen … no one is watching. When I'm aware of an audience, especially one whereI can interact with readers, such as the blog, it's both terrifying andexciting. A lot of the time being terrified wins out, though.
5) I'm that Worst Combination Ever ™, a lazyprocrastinator. By the time I've wandered around the internet looking at shinythings, and made another pot of tea, and watched half an hour of Supernatural(TNT! weekday mornings at ten and eleven!), and wandered around the internetsome more, and labored over my next Words with Friends move, it's generally timeto do paying work, or try to. (Or, on bad days, to pick up my kid from the busstop, at which point productivity for the day takes another serious nosedive.)
So that's me. Blogging is something I think about all thetime, but doing it? I'm not quite there yet with any consistency. I'm hopingthe Friday Five will help fix that, as well as some regular features, likeinterviews with other book people on Wednesdays.
I do have some things to say about writing and publishing,too! So I hope you'll come back to read them, and if any of you havesuggestions for posts you'd like to see here, please shout! (Or comment. Thatmight be more effective.)
And in the meantime, remember to tweet reasons to read Cold Kiss! The e-edition is on sale for $1.99 through the end of the month, and one person will win a $20 Barnes & Noble gift card for a creative reason to read the book. (Be creative! And tell your friends, huh? Also remember to @reply to me in the tweet so I'm sure to see it.)
In the spirit of the Friday Five rules, I'm going to keep itto five reasons, but believe me, there are many more.
1) The only things I ever manage to do on anythinglike a daily basis are eating and sleeping and drinking tea. Seriously. I can'teven add "showering" in there.
2) I realized a long time ago, reading over oldjournals and diaries from high school, that I journal most when I'm unhappy ortrying to figure something out. And because I came to blogging throughLiveJournal, blogging sometimes still feels, to me, like an online journal.
Except I don't want to bore anyone with thedetails of a crappy day spent cleaning up cat pee and unearthing the floor inmy kid's bedroom and rocking back and forth, convinced that I will never againwrite a word that anyone in his or her right mind would want to read. Because Ican't imagine anyone wants to read that but me, and I honestly don't want toread it much either.
3) Fiction is my true writing love. Fiction is howI solve problems, and work out the kinks in my brain's wiring, and understandthe way I feel about the world. And it's somehow easier to do it with fictionalpeople than it is for Amy, the writer/mom/wife/friend/daughter, to do it *as*Amy, writing about her own thoughts, at least coherently or stylishly. Soblogging sometimes leaves me a little befuddled, unless I'm linking to someoneelse's thoughts and saying, "Yes! This!"
4) It's really easy to dance like no one is watchingwhen … no one is watching. When I'm aware of an audience, especially one whereI can interact with readers, such as the blog, it's both terrifying andexciting. A lot of the time being terrified wins out, though.
5) I'm that Worst Combination Ever ™, a lazyprocrastinator. By the time I've wandered around the internet looking at shinythings, and made another pot of tea, and watched half an hour of Supernatural(TNT! weekday mornings at ten and eleven!), and wandered around the internetsome more, and labored over my next Words with Friends move, it's generally timeto do paying work, or try to. (Or, on bad days, to pick up my kid from the busstop, at which point productivity for the day takes another serious nosedive.)
So that's me. Blogging is something I think about all thetime, but doing it? I'm not quite there yet with any consistency. I'm hopingthe Friday Five will help fix that, as well as some regular features, likeinterviews with other book people on Wednesdays.
I do have some things to say about writing and publishing,too! So I hope you'll come back to read them, and if any of you havesuggestions for posts you'd like to see here, please shout! (Or comment. Thatmight be more effective.)
And in the meantime, remember to tweet reasons to read Cold Kiss! The e-edition is on sale for $1.99 through the end of the month, and one person will win a $20 Barnes & Noble gift card for a creative reason to read the book. (Be creative! And tell your friends, huh? Also remember to @reply to me in the tweet so I'm sure to see it.)
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