Perspectance

I’ve started some domains, some different blogs, and now struggle with focus. I feel like I want to write, but to myself, and that is too much trouble outside of my paper journal. Real blogging, on a topic, for people who might benefit by stopping by is another kind of writing I want to do, but I am struggling with focus.

Lorelle on WordPress has some great encouragement and guidance:

The best part of blogging with a narrow blog focus is that I have less self doubt about my abilities and my ability to blog. I know my subject matter. I know it from a variety of perspectives. I’m constantly challenging my information, resources, sources, and expertise as I write on the subject from different angles and points of view.

My problem is that looking at everything, well maybe not everything, but so many different things, about the way we learn to “be” in the world – is a broad, not focused topic. Actually, that right there is a more focused topic than I had arrived at ever before. Lorelle is inspiring though, and I want to work more with her concept of pulling a thread:

As you consider your blog’s focus, I want you to look at your entire life, all the threads that make up the tapestry of your life. They all make you, the resulting “fabric” of your life as it is right now. On that fabric you will find colors and patterns repeating themselves. Loudly. Vibrantly. Or possibly they are subtle and almost invisible, but when you look with fresh eyes, they start to stand out from the rest of the threads.

Lorelle prompts me to look for passion threads that “repeat themselves throughout the fabric” of my life and how “that could define the blog’s focus and content.” I’ve been doing a lot of this, and am choosing now to post publicly as a matter of showing myself progress toward this goal. In some small way, it’s holding myself accountable to write.