I Miss You, Little Bloggie
April 27th, 2010

Sean Ward in the Elevator

One the things about being prolific is that it’s easier to keep going than it is to start again once you’ve stopped.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been working my ass off. But posts that I’ve been meaning to write and videos that I’ve been wanting to make have taken an inadvertent back seat to my freelance writing and design of late. But fear not, loyal reader, for energy is also being invested in developing what I can right now only describe as a third series of The Sean Ward Show. I have some concepts for videos that I have been thinking about for a while and right now I’m seeing the team come together and it’s getting nice enough outside to pull them off.

As for this blog, the reader will see that every so often my posting frequency falls off of a cliff, and then I get back on a daily or even semi-daily routine. This cycle takes anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. If you see me not posting for a long time, it’s usually because I got carried away with something IRL and been away for a bit, and then when I do go to write a post it feels like I can’t just jump in; I feel like I’ve got to have something big to write about or put up a long and eloquent dissertation on a topic that I have had a long think about.

But then I’m missing the moments that make up a life. I waver constantly between wanting to use this blog to show off only my best and brightest ideas, and using it to rip my life open for all to see.

I think that’s the yin and yang of being a personal blogger, though, don’t you?  Isn’t that what everyone who takes part in this thing called ‘Social Media’ fights with?

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  • http://www.currybomb.com Christina

    Yes and yes.

    It's all the ballast of one's own life…at least that is what my therapist says. Intentions are lovely but sometimes not realistic and there is time for being carried away and time for long thinks followed by dissertations.

    Zen…hard to find, hard to keep.

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean Ward

    And that's the great blogging conundrum: present the Zen side to build
    credibility or the un-zen side to be real? I love this stuff.

  • jacquiesevers

    gah, i totally struggle with this. in fact, I've discontinued my anonymous blog and begun a new in-my-real-name blog for this very reason. if I just comment on other people's content, what is the point? I want a home where I generate my own content, not just in text form either, and dump my ideas in my name. I suppose your one of the people who have inspired this in a way.

    The best part of personal blogging to me is that there are no rules – I can post when I want how I want and how it fits in my day. The professional blogging I do can sometimes be so demanding, it gets tiresome (ie I'm tired of thinking up ideas about other people's stuff). your personal blog should be a respite from all of that noise, so you can just post as randomly as you want. real fans should support that, I think.

    wow, rambling!

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean Ward

    I actually keep a few anonymous blogs aside from this one, mostly as an outlet for interests that I don't necessarily want to make a big deal out of over here. But content that you can be serious about, can stand behind, and that's from the heart, that's the important stuff. The no rules thing is great but for me, feeling like a few people are paying attention, it can get paralyzing and you can drive yourself crazy if you think about it too much.

    Since writing this post, I found the one I wrote at the beginning of the year where I said that blogging is as much about mental housekeeping as it is about selling myself. I just gotta remember that and I'll be OK, whichever way I got on the 'to mystique or not to mystique' angle…

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