Intention-first blogging
I’ve been thinking about how I go about blogging. Recently, I’ve used the following method: Pick something that I don’t quite understand, but that I’d like to explore. Journal about it, then turn that journal article into a blog post.
That might be fine for a personal log book, but I don’t think it allows me to communicate as well as I could. I’m now leaning towards a different approach: blogging to share something interesting that I already have worked out. This way, I’d be doing the journaling first, and separately. Then, I would write the blog post with the intention of sharing what I had learnt in a more easily digestible manner.
Separating the research and the sharing would give me the space to begin with an intention that’s entirely about the effect on you, my reader. What new point of view would I like to show you? In what way could I inspire you? I’d be out of my own self-centred headspace and really interacting with others.
I think this could work out to be pretty cool.
17 June 2009 at 22:59
Something I forgot in this post that seems to be really important: write the post as if writing to one person, a close friend. When I forget to do this, I think my posts come across as a bit “distant expert” instead of “friendly chat”.