Making a Connection

When I restarted this blog I think I wanted to use it for myself as a kind of diary. Obviously I wanted to bring my ideas and opinions to a more public realm, but I have to admit that I didn’t really expect to get a lot of attention. That expectation proved correct in a comparative sense given the relatively small readership I have, but in another sense I was incorrect. Some of my posts have encouraged comments and some have been shared in different places on the Internet, and my readers come from around the world. That has changed my writing style when I look at the blog posts over the years.

I have made more effort to engage and to challenge. I have taken much longer to craft some of my posts. I have started to consider what gets a lot of reaction (in comparative terms) and what gets overlooked. Now, I don’t think the posts that get overlooked are worse than the posts that get lots of attention, but I can see why that is the case. I think that when I let a bit more of myself into a post, it connects better with the audience and is, in a sense, easier to write. The daily prompt has really encouraged me to be more immediate in my writing and I think that has helped.

I have found blogging to be a good way of destressing even if I have occasionally got frustrated with a post that hasn’t quite hit the mark! I have enjoyed the interaction increasing almost exponentially since I started with the daily prompt, because at heart I want to reach people. That is why I became a teacher, why I wrote and self published a couple of not very well received books over a decade ago, and why I started writing about music online. I am not the best person at communicating in real life but it’s something I am getting better at doing online.

Thank you to everyone reading this and any other posts for letting me communicate with you. If you ever want to communicate with me I love the dopamine hit of a comment so please feel free to put one at the bottom of any of my 250 previous posts!