Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Typical Male Blogger

I just read that 56% of blog owners are woman, I can live with that, no big deal but then I read that most male blog owners abandon their blogs in its early stages, unlike most woman. Now I feel obligated to not abandon my blog, if I do I'll just be a typical male, that sucks, I hate being a typical anything.

I know myself, once I feel obligated to something then I tend to not enjoy it anymore, it's ruined many of my hobbies.
For example, I used to constantly do Digital Art, till one day I decided to try to earn a bit of money from my hobby. The moment I had customers and I was working for people and not my own pleasure, the hobby became a task that I no longer enjoyed. It didn't take long till I almost entirely stopped doing digital art.
Same thing happened with RPG's (Role Playing Games), I used to RP on a regular basis, *I Role Played in a form of multi author writing where each person is responsible mostly for his own character that he created and together everyone participating builds a full grown story*. eventually I had become a critical part of the stories and people had to wait for me to respond inorder for them to continue, I then felt obligated to continue and found myself forced to write even when I wasn't in the mood and eventually I stopped RPing. I tried to RP about 4 more times but each time I felt obligated once more as soon as the story went on, a couple weeks ago I stopped RPing for the fourth time.

Those were only 2 examples, they go to show that if this becomes an obligation then no matter how much I enjoy writing, I will eventually stop enjoying it unless I find a way to come over this feeling of obligation. Interaction with other people who shine some kind of opinion on my writing, is one way to keep me interested longer but I'm doubtfull as to how many people will actually read this. I think the best way to keep me interested would be to only write when I either have something to write about or am in the mood. I need to stop thinking of the blog as a dayly task and more as, "Oh I should write about that", followed by me writing whatever it is I thought about. Well being I'm writing this to myself anyway, I shouldn't feel too obligated, I may be making a big deal out of this for nothing.

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