Keep a public blog under a psuedonymn, where you post the ramblings, daily life, and so forth. Your friends might enjoy reading it, and it lets you practice writing. Whenever you write something particularly interesting on your personal blog, do a second draft that cuts down on the rambling and post it on your main blog.
This is largely what I already do (keep a pseudonymous public blog) but as I said, my self-consciousness about posting material there has increased over time. I have ‘daily life’ posts on it from years back that would make me cringe hard if I were to go and look at them.
Come to think of it, my self-consciousness is strongly correlated with the number of people that I’m not close friends with who follow my blog. So starting a new secondary blog would remove that barrier. Alright, I’m going to commit to trying to keep a primary and secondary blog for at least a month, and see how it goes.
Keep a public blog under a psuedonymn, where you post the ramblings, daily life, and so forth. Your friends might enjoy reading it, and it lets you practice writing. Whenever you write something particularly interesting on your personal blog, do a second draft that cuts down on the rambling and post it on your main blog.
This is largely what I already do (keep a pseudonymous public blog) but as I said, my self-consciousness about posting material there has increased over time. I have ‘daily life’ posts on it from years back that would make me cringe hard if I were to go and look at them.
Come to think of it, my self-consciousness is strongly correlated with the number of people that I’m not close friends with who follow my blog. So starting a new secondary blog would remove that barrier. Alright, I’m going to commit to trying to keep a primary and secondary blog for at least a month, and see how it goes.
If your blog has gained readers, that seems like a pretty good sign to me that you’re not just wasting peoples’ time.
Good point, and one I should remind myself of more often