Brand New Blog
Okay, I have been at this blogging thing for five minutes and I'm already terrible at it. I just wrote a whole long post and then managed to send it off into oblivion. (In my defense I would like to point out that Blogger doesn't offer the greatest user interface, and I would be happy to tell them how to fix it if they would like to hire my IA company to do so.) Anyway, here we go again...
I've been putting off starting a blog because it's always seemed to me to be one of the more utterly self-absorbed, egotistical things you can do electronically (second only to Googling yourself fifteen times a day, which I've been known to do - so once I've done the first why not go ahead and do the second). But. I do read blogs. And I realize that I seem sort of blog-like, and that people are surprised to find out I don't have one, as though it makes me less of a writer or less of a person or less web-savvy.
And of course I write non-fiction, and am about to publish an entire book about me and the people I know, at which point writing a blog and informing people about what kind of toothpaste I use and how often I go to yoga seems somehow less self-absorbed. Or at least, the line has been crossed into complete and utter egotism, so what the hell ... why not start a blog.
Plus, as my father says, I am gestating multiple things right now. I am waiting for my book to come out and I am waiting for my baby to come out. (He doesn't get a hyperlink yet.) He's due in three weeks, over the course of which I will probably only mention his impending arrival about 4 billion times.
Fun, right?
I've been putting off starting a blog because it's always seemed to me to be one of the more utterly self-absorbed, egotistical things you can do electronically (second only to Googling yourself fifteen times a day, which I've been known to do - so once I've done the first why not go ahead and do the second). But. I do read blogs. And I realize that I seem sort of blog-like, and that people are surprised to find out I don't have one, as though it makes me less of a writer or less of a person or less web-savvy.
And of course I write non-fiction, and am about to publish an entire book about me and the people I know, at which point writing a blog and informing people about what kind of toothpaste I use and how often I go to yoga seems somehow less self-absorbed. Or at least, the line has been crossed into complete and utter egotism, so what the hell ... why not start a blog.
Plus, as my father says, I am gestating multiple things right now. I am waiting for my book to come out and I am waiting for my baby to come out. (He doesn't get a hyperlink yet.) He's due in three weeks, over the course of which I will probably only mention his impending arrival about 4 billion times.
Fun, right?
posted by Hana @ 12:12 PM
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