Wah. I entered the SheBee Blog Contest – see here for more
1. What/Who brought you to blogging?
I’ve always written. Anyone who knows me it really started in earnest with what we in the know – i.e. Seh and Trac, called the “little notebooks”. Then, when I fell pregnant (crap I hate that saying!), I spent a lot of time on Google, and I found Julie on alittlepregnant.com. Through her, I found Tertia. And we all know about Tertia! And that just inspired me. Here was a woman, unafraid, writing about her pain and her joy and letting the world read it. It took a few months, and then I started. And I have not looked back. Except of course, for the time where my first blog (wahah! a classic!) had a server which died/crashed/imploded and I lost it all. Then, there was the interesting incident of last year, and now here I am. I ain’t going anywhere either. I’ve tried to leave, sometimes, but I always come back.
2. What do you get out of it for yourself?
Wow. That’s a big one. I find peace in it. In being able to encapsulate something, and let it go in writing. It helps me to process things, events, changes, anything. It enables me to contemplate. Writing has always been my way of coping with life, and primarily with myself. Also, as SheBee and I both know, we write to read ourselves. It’s led me to a lot of healing, and a lot of self-introspection, which actually isn’t all that bad. Moreover, though, I like to honour things, people, events, life moments through writing. Also, it lets me rant. This is very important when you’re me.
3. If you have a theme / process you follow when blogging and why?
To be honest, I don’t. I never have had a process of beginning. It’s just always been there. I know when something irks me, inspires me, something will start to form in my brain and I get that I MUST WRITE THIS DOWN RIGHT NOW alarm in my head. And that’s always when I do. If I miss it, it is gone forever, this I know. Yes, that means I have a lot of little pieces of paper with scrawl on and yes, it does mean that sometimes I write a shit load, and other days, I write nothing. I call it my blogorhythms, and it’s not governed by my biorhythms.
4. your standards on blogging, if you draw a line at writing about any particular thing
I’m a huge believer that everything in life is autobiographical. On any level, whenever you create, something in there is a part of you. That said, however, I would never write intimate details of someone’s life without their permission or knowledge. I am not a gossip columnist (although, thats a career I think I would rock at!) and as such, am not going to divulge that Such-as-Such really has a small willy or somesuch. The closest I think I have ever come to doing that directly is to honour someone’s birthday or a significant event or act. Even then, cryptic is generally my way forward. You’d only really understand it if you were me, or them. And I’m okay with this.
5. the best thing to come of your blogging thus far
That’s a simple answer. The people. The people who I have met, and grown to know in the blogosphere. It’s brought me closer to people, to their stories and ushered experiences and awesome souls in to my inner circle. Hells, one of them even lives with me now! =)