What made you start writing a blog?

**Helen_B**[$] · #1 09-03-2008, 01:09 AM

I've been posting on some other forums lately, and have gotten some very good feedback. It makes me think that if I blogged, folks might read what I wrote. I'm wondering how the bloggers among you decided to start blogging. Where you trying to get a message across, trying to make money, felt like expressing yourself beyond your usual circle of friends--what compelled you to do it.

**lynnzop**[$] · #2 09-03-2008, 10:32 AM

I did mine as part of a business venture - yes it brings in a little money, but for the most part, it gives me a creative outlet to share information.

I know my family (some of them

) read it regularly, and I do have other "regular" readers as well. Part of the reason to continue to write is to keep those folks abreast of what I'm up to.

**MrsNormanMaine**[$] · #3 09-03-2008, 12:01 PM

I keep mine up so that far flung friends can check in and see what's going on in my life. I used to write a lot of letters but I just don't have the time anymore so the blog serves as an open letter to the world.

MNM

**conradd** · #4 09-03-2008, 03:04 PM

Mine was a coping mechanism - Shane going back to Iraq and I knew that there were so many other moms as panicked as I was. I started it to share support and it was a huge part of my life while he was in the Corps. Now, it's neglected but I'm thinking about picking it back up - just not sure in what format. I've tried recruiting other moms to write but haven't been successful there.

**mtomm**[$] · #5 09-03-2008, 03:36 PM

The only person who reads my blog is me. I just use it as a personal journal. I'm really only starting to use it regularly.

*emeleel* · #6 09-03-2008, 05:14 PM

The first one I ever did was about stupid people (Golgafrinchans of the World - 10 points if you know the reference

) but I never really did anything with it. Then I started blogging for Homeschool Help Web, and that was fun. When things changed there, I started my new one, but it's almost all homeschool business.

Last year I did start a personal blog with tight privacy on it - anyone could read it, but I didn't use any of our names or locations and no photos without blanked faces. I also didn't advertise anywhere along my normal stomping grounds - I just kind of put it out there. I started it not too long after Joseph got his new job and I was feeling rather stressed out about all the changes going on. It wasn't really a venting place, more of a distraction from reality. It helped a lot. And now that I'm busy with other stuff and have gotten over the major humps associated with all the changes, I almost never write there anymore.

Blogging can be very fun, and while the average person won't make much off of it, it can still be rewarding in its own way.

I can point you to several good articles and sites about blogging if you're interested.

**theworm**[$] · #7 09-03-2008, 10:10 PM

Leslie

**drmomentum**[$] · #8 09-04-2008, 05:51 PM

I wanted to talk to my friends without having to send lots of mass emails.

**Helen_B**[$] · #9 09-11-2008, 06:25 PM

Thanks for all the feedback. That's a lot of different good reasons to blog.

sleeper54 · #10 09-11-2008, 09:06 PM

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Helen_B said

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I'm wondering how the bloggers among you decided to start blogging. Where you trying to get a message across, trying to make money, felt like expressing yourself beyond your usual circle of friends--what compelled you to do it.

Late to the party as usual...

Because I could.

To express more creativity than the Eps writing I do. Which is tightly 'controlled' re: product reviews.

To create something.

Because I found reading other blogs fun.

To share thoughts and things I find.

Just because...

...tom...
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