...would someone please (I don't hold out much hope - I haven't publicized this blog) remind me that in the past I was a good blogger!! I had a BUNCH of blog posts. On a different site. The fact that I've logged five posts in the past two years is...yes...well...anyway...
Honestly, I think I fell off the blogging wagon when Facebook took over my life. Did I say took over? I meant entered. Reallly. I think I thought I would use the "Notes" on there as blog posts. And I did. A bit. But as the result of Facebook, the thoughts I have that are fit for public consumption have moved from paragraphs and stories to pithy one-liners that can fit in Facebook statuses. So. There's my excuse.
I'm pulling the blog back out (I HOPE I'm pulling the blog back out) because my fantastic company, Bright Ideas Press (which you can visit at Bright Ideas Press.com - shameless plug) has its own blog, and they would like their employees to blog. Only, I feel this insane amount of pressure to have to blog appropriately, because there I'm a representative of the company. I'm queen of negative self-talk and whenever I start to write something, I can come up with all kinds of reasons that it shouldn't be posted on that site. I sorta feel like when I blog there, it should come with some disclaimer like, "the opinions expressed by this blogger do not necessarily reflect those held by the company at large." So I'm thinking that if I start blogging again here, I can get my creative juices going again - something longer than quippy FB statuses - and perhaps some of it will end up being useful for BIP's blog. Anyone up for the ride?
1 comment:
I always enjoy your writing, insight, humor, and especially your proper use of punctuation and grammar. Therefore, I support your jump (back?) from pithy FB status updates to Blogs and then onto (someday) more BOOKS!
[Disclaimer, the views of this commentator are not necessarily that of Melissa's employer.]
Maggie
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