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Blogging with Discipline

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I like this idea.

I can relate to what Beth talks about. I have tended to be one of these writers;

There are times when my mind is filled with more blog posts than there are days in the week, when everything in my life can be easily put into a witty and/or meaningful bit of writing.

I remember just before I “seriously” started blogging a friend looked on the domain of my email address at the time (it was puzzling), expecting I think because it wasn’t a telco account that I might have a blog and telling me that it’d be a fascinating read if I did blog. I’m glad she did. I wonder though if like most bloggers, I feel a pressure to be fascinating every time. Indeed the catch cry that “content is king” is championed on many a blog.  I have often waited till I had the post in my 3rd draft stage with a beginning, a middle, and an end before I have started typing or I have just ranted.

I recently applied for membership of BlogCatalog; a blog directory similar to Technorati. It was hard for me to find which category of theirs I would “fit in”. (Oh where have I heard that before?) I was rejected. I’m fine with it. I think they look at the blog on a few days in a row and it might have been during my last “bloggers block”. The email read in part:

Your blog is brand new and/or doesn’t have enough content to make it truly valuable.
If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.

Ouch… But getting more disciplined is something that I want to develop anyway.

I’ve always used my work and confidentiality as an excuse. That’s true, but it needn’t be an excuse.

So;

Blogging with discipline doesn’t mean you have to blog every day or that you can’t ever take a break. It means blogging regularly–whatever that means for you. It means sitting down and trying to develop a blog post idea instead of waiting until a perfectly-written post is already floating around in your brain.
Given that what about this for a trial? I’ll write 5 blog posts a week and commit to putting at least three up per week till the 15th March. Some may be very brief, other dull. But we’ll try it and reassess.
Lets talk.

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100 posts.

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In September 2005, while traveling I started this blog. That was a long time ago in both time and headspace.

I have had many hiatuses from this medium, hence the four years to get here. I have had a variety of topics, many self serving muses. But I’m still here and I enjoy it.

The choice of The View from Down Here as a title was always designed as an autantonym. On the one hand the reference was to the fact that I hail from, and in fact live “down under” in Australia. Certainly then and in many ways now the blogersphere felt very “top heavy”. Discussions of current affairs seemed to occur in a lively fashion in America and to a lesser extent the UK. I wanted to be part of intelligent issues-based dialogue, and perhaps to contribute to some aussie led conversations. While I’m now aware of more Aussie bloggers, I don’t think we engage in the same way or as regularly. However we are part of the dialogue now. Many who may not be bloggers comment privately or offline, so the discussion starts. even if technorati doesn’t seem to know i exist at the moment. (by the way any linking you feel like doing to raise my authority — greatly appreciated. Having no “authority” in technorati terms after 3 years is pretty sad. :( )

On the other side of the coin is the reflection that as a woman who views the world waist high, that is from a wheelchair. I guess my perspective might be different on a whole range of topics in the very obvious way and in a whole lot of subtle ways. In the ebb and flow of life those differences are sometimes a lot more obvious to myself and others than at other times. That has been reflected here. All that notwithstanding, my perspective is my perspective, regardless of what informs it, just like everyone else. There are as it turns out a few people who use wheelchairs who are bloggers now too, but I didn’t know that then.

So after 100 posts and 4 years that’s why I blog. A shout out to Jaqi who once asked why I didn’t blog, Rebecca who answered a question and others like Tony who showed me how to do it with grace.

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