Sonntag, 7. September 2014

The difficulty of being a 'blogger'

The idea of a blog is so simple: you give your opinion about a certain topic you are interested in or about your experiences to the people that are willing to listen to you. 

Yeah, that's in theory.

Now, there are so many processes and even barriers included. As soon as you sit at your desk and want to start writing you ask yourself questions like: 

What in my life could possibly be worth to put online? 
Which of these amazing but second-class stories are compelling to my readership? 
Is there a readership? 
And if there is: In what situation will they be while reading the blog? 
Will they be bored / unhappy / melancholic / homesick / enthusiastic / disturbed / happy? 
Will my best friend be reading it while listening to electronic music? 
And will my mother be in a busy hurry? 

Leaving these questions unanswered and putting them aside because they will lead to more and more questions (Will my neighbour be crying when she reads the blog?), there is only the question of content left. In the search for true inspiration you, in your brilliant disguise as a blogger, will then probably enter the web. You will flick through your favourite feminist and anti-fascist blogs. You will admire their style of writing, the exact placing of words. You realize that they are actually talking about important issues... and that everything you possibly would have wanted to talk of has already been said. You leave their blogs with a bittersweet taste in your mouth and get back to your own text. 
You start to think about yourself. You start to question yourself. 
Why write at all?

This could result in a situation where you feel unable to publish anything at all.

But then you just dress up as blogger, finish the text and publish the sh*t. 


*btw these are some of my favourite blogs, you should check them out:
http://maedchenmannschaft.net/
http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/
http://polizeiundsexismus.wordpress.com/
http://stoptalk.wordpress.com/
http://www.noahsow.de/
http://riotmango.de/

1 Kommentar:

  1. Sorry, Schätzelein, I'm in a terrible hurry. Just this: I'm very much looking forward to reading your posts. Thanks for sharing your ideas and impressions with those far away from your present home.
    :-)

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