Hopeful Blogging
I’m sitting here in our B&B using my iPhone to write this. Nowt wrong with that.
I got an idea for a post. But nah, don’t write it. Sounds like whinging. Wait. A lot of bloggers will agree. Still sounds like whinging. Don’t write it.
Made a brew, had a biscuit. Back to thinking. The idea. It won’t let go. But it’s worrying. Don’t want to be a moaner. Yeah, but figure it out. Work the angle.
Aha. They did it. I thought I was going to leave this one. But I said: “Work the angle”. That got my journalistic nose twitching. The angle. Yes, that’s the kicker.
The angle is this. It struck me that I’m blogging away because I write every day. But with the hope that people are reading. And that hope means something big.
It means it’s on me to make sure I’m writing well enough. Well enough for people taking the time to read what I’ve written.
And that’s the point. Like any other blogger, I want readers. But all bloggers have the same challenge. Are we writing what readers what to read?
Hopeful blogging. That’s what it is. But it’s a learned craft as well. Write, see what lands, do more of that.
But…
I have another thing. A rule. Or a guideline. I want to still be me. That matters.
My brew is cooling, but I reckon I’m done here. I’ll publish this one and carry on hoping.