My buddy says my drive to blog once a day on my sites sounds very "draconian." He's probably right. Since I have big ideas for my websites that are meant to lead to the eventual earning of money from them, I first need an audience. You can't draw an audience without the content. You can't amass content without putting something new up there every day.
The other good thing about writing every day is the ideas. I'm forcing myself to come up with an idea every day. It really works the brain to stay creative and on top of things instead of oscillating into a complacent pattern of thinking only about grocery lists and which Netflix DVD is coming next. It also allows me to cover my topics thoroughly. I am afraid a little bit of burnout and of this becoming about quantity over quality. But I don't have a quota or really any rules. The idea is just to blog once a day and if I can't, I blog twice the next. The blogs don't have to be a certain length so some are long and some are short. And I'm trying to stay away from just posting links to other stuff, which a lot of blogs do. I look at that as just filler so I try not to do it.
That's what Tumblr is for anyway. This blog and my Libertease blog are two that I update as I feel like it. Tumblr is super-easy and quick to update. It's more like an online collection or scrapbook than a blog. I can even update it from the Tumblet, which is a widget I downloaded for my Apple Dashboard. So now I have a Libertease Tumblr page that is a companion for the actual blog. This is a politics blog I keep just for kicks, mostly to log how I am making my decision on who to vote for as president. I really can't decide who to vote for this election and that's really unusual for me. Usually I know all year which is the right candidate for me. So I imagine I'll be looking back over the blog the first week of November, trying to remember who did and said what all year long as I make my final decision.
The two that get updated daily are The Music Stalker blog and the Hippy Shopping Chick Blog. They're hobby blogs.
I'm a radio veteran and a total music stalker, always on the lookout for something good to listen to music-wise. That's what The Music Stalker is for. I just couldn't find a place where I could write about all the music I like. Everyone wants to give you a label and a niche and you're supposed to stay within the lines. I can't do that. I really do like all music. It gives me a spot in cyberspace to work on my own brand of unique music journalism.
Hippy Shopping Chick is about conscious lifestyle choices through, of course, shopping. It's about veganism, vegetarianism, healthy food, food geek stuff, recipes, personal care products, eco-friendly stuff, household items, living with a meat eater, and anything else I've confronted since converting to a mostly vegetarian lifestyle. The site is for people who are new vegetarians or who are interested in getting the most out of their health food store--and the people who are afraid to navigate the local health food store at all. The site is also for non-vegetarians. It's just for people who want to spend their money on a better lifestyle. I was inspired to do it because a coworker told me she thought of me when driving by a Whole Foods. Everyone says that. Then people who don't know me starting asking for advice about non-conventional sunblock by the pool...it was like I had "Hippy Shopping Chick" written on my forehead! I probably do.
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