Everyone tells me to blog. Build a web presence, they say. Get your name “out there” so you sell lots of books once you’re published. I might understand the logic, but that doesn’t mean I know what to blog about. My daily existence doesn’t exactly provide a huge, long list of fascinating anecdotes to entertain the masses. That’s why I write fiction---because my real life is dull. On my best days I sit in one spot for hours and hours and pound away at my keyboard, only moving to refill my coffee cup. Boring, boring, boring. I am boring. Everyone tells me to just stop it. Stop being boring, they say, and become interesting, intriguing, and adventuresome. And then blog about it.
Interesting, intriguing and adventuresome? Surely there must be an easier solution. I like being duller than dull, and I’m quite sure I wouldn’t adventure well. So I decide that my blog needs a theme instead. Something that I can think about over coffee and never leave home to pursue. Some interesting concept that will amuse and enlighten my web audience. No matter that I have no web audience. If my theme is good, they will come.
After much deliberation, I have thought of a theme: Cueing the Muse. Stay tuned, you web audience you, and I will elaborate next time.
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I love Cueing the Muse! I think it's very inspired. I know what you mean, wondering what to blog about -- but most of my blog posts kind of bubble to the surface when I'm doing something else. Like the one I called "Ode to a Bookmark" -- it happened when I was reading a library book and got frustrated at all the turned-down corners of the pages! Normally I would just "Hmph" and go back to reading, but this time I decided to type up my thoughts -- instant blog topic!
ReplyDeleteLove the theme. Ideas can come from anywhere - you just have to be available to the muse when she wants to speak!
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