Everybody lies

posted on Tuesday, March, 9th, 2010 in default

Did anybody notice that it has been very quiet here for months?
Just me then, all right.
I’m sad to say I pretty much lost my drive for keeping this blog updated lately. I just couldn’t think of anything to write anymore.
I am blaming all the professional bloggers and their “how to make money blogging” posts for that (although it is of course my own damn fault for reading them in the first place). Reading those blogs took all the fun out of writing completely useless posts just for the heck of it. With them it’s always about “give your reader value” and “think of your keywords” and “find a profitable niche” and bla, bla, bla. All this strategic thinking and planning made writing into work.
Of course the pros are right, and if you want to make money from blogging or become widely read and famous you should try to follow those guidelines. But the thing I had forgotten about myself is that, while I certainly have nothing in principle against earning money from a blog, it has not been the reason for me to blog in the first place. I started blogging before it was even called blogging, before such things like Blogger and WordPress even existed, and certainly well before anybody even thought about making money from this stuff. And I did it because it was fun to write longish, rambling posts about anything that caught my interest at one time or another. And I still remember the surprise when I first realized that people outside my small circle of real-life friends and family actually read what I wrote.
Back then I hadn’t heard anything about keeping to a posting schedule, using keywords, staying on topic and all that other stuff that makes this whole thing into work. Back then it was sloppy, chaotic, random and most of all: fun.
Realizing that, I decided I want to get back to the unprofessional fun side of things. So I guess there will be new posts in here at some point in the future. About what, I have no idea yet.