all depends on the day…
Throughout the last week we have been reading some great entries into this challenge and have to say that many of the reasons that other bloggers got started are ones that we can easily associate with: as a journal, a place to vent, a vehicle for artistic expression, to connect with others and to see what the rest of the blogosphere is up to are just a few of the points offered up. We had been saving Roz Chast’s cartoon for a very long time in the knowledge that one day it would be just right for that very special post and lo and behold, it is. She knows us all and must have been perched on our shoulder the day we first pressed publish for we are All of the Above, though we would like to think that subtlety plays at least a small part in getting our point across.
Did we think we could change the world? Not realistically. Did we anticipate changing ourselves? Never in a million years, but we did. Would we do it all over again? In a heartbeat and we would venture that many of you would also. This fortnight the Big 5 Challenge is curious to know “Why did you start to blog?” – forum or fancy, news or reviews, to find friend or battle foe, seek source of satisfaction or sound out discussion, to expound, extoll, expand, in song, full-colour, poetry or prose …
We would love to know why you decided to put it all out there.
For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this challenge can be found here: Need more info, want to browse past themes or get the badge for your blog? See HOW DOES THIS WORK.
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I guess it was a mixture of all the options in the illustration. :D
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Oh yes!
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Ranting, being changed, improving the writing gift–a day without blogging is like a day without orange juice. (…but I never drink orange juice–oh well, must work to improve metaphors and similes)
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Drinking OJ in the morning makes it harder to trust that gut feeling for the rest of the day… Would we be prolific journal writers if we didn’t blog? I’m not sure…
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You’re right–I was never one who journaled; but the blog deal is my prolific, if somewhat veiled journal experience–therapeutic, and much more interactive than a journal.
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Could never bring myself to scrawl all over those nice clean pages!
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I couldn’t afford the risk of it being read by people who’d never heard of boundaries–except their own.
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Plus the fact that some of it just looks downright silly (or even more horrific) 20+ years on down the road…
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True–I’ve cut down on the melodrama, but not by much!
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Well somebody has to keep things interesting!
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You know me….and my moods….I dare say I’m never boring, but that’s not a brag. By the way, while I’ve got you on the line–a friend has asked how you do the illuminated artwork around poetry. So, wondering if you might do a short post about that–or just answer me briefly–unless of course it’s a big artistic secret you don’t want to give away….
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Well that was easy – I downloaded that one from a public domain site so I wouldn’t get sued and then played with it in photoshop by adding in texture, background fills, overlays and the text: it does take a bit of the romance out of it but my days of working by candlelight with brush and paint are few and far between!
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Oh you’re too cute–I have such a visual of you bent over, squint-eyed in candlelight…didn’t take any romance away from the finished art, for me!
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:)
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