Comments on: Why Blog?

By: Ending a Good Thing for an Even Better Reason. Almost. | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:58:01 +0000

[...] Blogging is that process for me. I write to unwind my wooly thoughts, instincts and fears and arrive at a decision. Hopefully a good decision. A self-respecting decision. And I did. I chose not to join a relationship in which I would have to accept a ‘not good enough’ feeling. I chose not to trade my confidence for companionship. I decided to end things before they even got started. It felt honest, brave, and necessary. It felt fucking awful. Even mixed with a triumph of the soul, the consequences of this decision were going to suck. Really suck. [...]

By: Keywords Matter – but not in the way you might think. | RENEGADEconversations

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:44:13 +0000

[...] Why blog? Because when you do it long enough you learn about yourself. You see yourself in a powerful, articulate, and “scripted” way. There’s telling data. There’s anecdote. There’s language. There are keywords that invite insight and a few more things: risk, desire, passion, conversation, life, and hope! [...]

By: Why Blog? The Answer Is Not Cosmically Sexy, It’s Google. Google Gives Good ROI.

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:08:32 +0000

[...] Graciously, she agreed to post on my site – thinking with me about the ‘why’ of blogging and more specifically, the benefits of such – particularly for business! Thanks, Kelly!!! Did I mention you’re amazing? Why Blog? [...]

By: Spending the Day

Spending the Day — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:19:37 +0000

[...] pulls me in many different directions. My preference is toward this kind of thing: blogging, talking online, and thinking all the time about how to develop my business. My preference is not [...]

By: Kelly Diels . com

Kelly Diels . com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Ending a Good Thing for an Even Better Reason. Almost….

I’m ending a relationship because I’m fat. We have passionate, easy, hours-long conversations, warmth, affection, respect, and outrageous sex. OUTRAGEOUS. Friendship, respect and hot sex: a pretty great foundation, right? What more can I ask for?Ev…

By: The (virtual) conversation/community continues…

The (virtual) conversation/community continues… — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:06:21 +0000

[...] Yesterday I inserted a beautiful blog post from Lindsey. She wrote in response to my post called, Why Blog? and, in my opinion, answered the question in a rich, almost haunting way; different from my [...]

By: More (virtual) community/conversation

More (virtual) community/conversation — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:46:02 +0000

[...] Detrick on September 21, 2009 I’m grateful for some lovely comments from my recent post Why Blog? and more from the next day’s: (Virtual) community rocks! They’ve shown up here on my [...]

By: Virtual community rocks!

Virtual community rocks! — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:26:18 +0000

[...] Ronna Detrick on September 19, 2009 Yesterday I published a post entitled, Why Blog? I listed three (though there are zillions more) reasons why blogging matters. Today I thought of [...]

By: Ronna Detrick

Ronna Detrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:27:45 +0000

Thanks, Lindsey. There is a compulsion to it…something that holds and pulls and wrenches and invites. And all of that is good – whether defined, categorized, or not. Your writing is beautiful, exposing, brilliant, vulnerable…you. That may be reason enough.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:52:37 +0000

Ronna,

I just love this. I think often – and am often challenged – about why I blog. About the obvious need for a reader, which seems very different than a private journal. About what my blog is “about” – I am challenged constantly to be more clear about the goal or focus of my blog, and I simply can’t answer those questions. I am coming to the conclusion that, like me, my blog is perhaps in the “defies categorization” category.
But understand WHY I am compelled to do this thing, this writing in a public forum, surrounded by people I at once know and do not know … that is a critical thought exercise.
Thank you for writing this – it says very clearly many of my most inarticulate thoughts and reasons.

Lindsey
http://www.adesignsovast.com
Lindsey´s last blog ..