Blogging is a ton of work and a huge commitment, especially when you're trying to churn out interesting relevant posts. I actually don't know how people do it, but I suspect that it comes from a totally unquenchable passion for the subject matter of the blog. I think that this is why it has been difficult for me to maintain any consistency with my writing, as I have yet to pursue (or for that matter, find) a theme that motivates me to write on an ongoing basis.
Sure, I had my idea for the b-school blog (the previous theme of meg in malibu), but b-school took up all my time, and in what little time I had to spare, I definitely didn't feel like writing about what I had learned. Before that, I had the MegSkis blog, which was directionless and boring. And I really can't even comment on my copywriting blog, which only made it to two posts.
My one blogging success was with Cooltiques, the blog I kept in Japan, in which I detailed my travels on the island Kyushu. But, that had a beginning and an end. More importantly, however, it had a focus.
I am totally envious of those people who are passionate enough about something to turn it into a consistent blog–to where the life of the blogger and the blog become mutually reinforcing. Surely, this is the recipe for blogging success–that or being paid to blog.
So, why I'm still attempting to find my own blogging success is kind of a mystery. I am certainly passionate about lots of things, but maybe not passionate enough turn all my attention to centering a blog around one or two interests. Make sense? Probably not, but it basically describes why my blogs end up meandering along faintly interesting paths only to dead ends.
This is not a pronouncement of a renewed commitment to blogging, I just happen to have a little free time on my hands and have been doing a little spring cleaning, which now includes an inventory of my digital closets.
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