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30 day LiveJournal Challenge Kick-Off!
Feb. 7th, 2011 09:20 amReady, set, GO!
I've been contemplating a 30 day, post-everyday on LiveJournal challenge. So here I am, on day 1!
This is to get back into the habit of posting on my personal blog. I call it a personal blog for several reasons...
It's not a "Content oriented" blog, meaning, I'm not writing for monetary purposes, and nor am I writing for any other reason beyond my actual LJ friends'list. However, now it goes out over my Facebook feed, which is fine. That means it opens me up to a much larger audience. It goes from 100 to roughly 600 - and I know that not all of those 100 people on LJ are in my "inner circle" so to speak.
So, my objectives are different. They're mostly for self archiving, and actual real news updates on my life. Facebook is awful in regards to archival data, it is also awful because it says very little about what is REALLY going on, I often want to write far more than a tiny status update. But I've gotten into the habit of frequently Facebook more.
At first it didn't take a toll on my livejournal updates. But over time, it began to. And I'm just not happy with that. I have a lot more to share with myself and my inner circle than just 3-5 updates per day in 1-4 sentence strings. That's the truth of it. And even in LiveJournal I was a high poster. I always feel bad about over-updating my Facebook, but realize that no one minds in LJ when you do this. Or if they do, they never told me.
Objectives are to keep a much more accurate log of my LIFE as I've used this venue to do this in the past. Also to get my words flowing better, to get some personal journaling done (I second this for self journaling, but I do it publicly). That and I know my inner circle misses some of my writing, and now that I have my life back (from the brief spell where my life seemed to vanish into an abyss of what I call grip-experience)... there is stuff to note!!!
Lots of stuff!
However, as I wrote in a status update yesterday for FB, not all entries will be public. Some will be friends'only (visible to just my inner circle) or some even private. This is because there are lots of things I'd like to process in my life and also record in my life, that aren't the business of 600+ folks. It's understandable. I would naturally guard myself from writing what is Truth if I was worrying about what my larger network would be reading. It's just plain fact.
Also, there are some of these inspirational quotes I post on FB that I wish I had in a grouped location. I mean in one place. Well, LJ makes that incredibly easy with it's tagging feature. I can begin to build my own inspirational scrapbook here. The parameters are going to be plain and simple, with this. Post once a day. More if I want. So here goes!!!
I'm already feeling happier with this. I love FB. I love FB for everything it is. But I also recognize I don't need to use it for everything. And I need to give back to myself a little more. That has always been writing for me. I need to start to really key into writing. Perhaps this will give way into more creative outlets.
In my next post, whether I write it later today or perhaps for Day 2, will talk about what is new and what is going on in my life. But I had to write this as an opener for my 30 day challenge. It is also really sad that my last post was about 2 months ago. Awful!!!
So, you'll be seeing me around, folks!
-Angela
I've been contemplating a 30 day, post-everyday on LiveJournal challenge. So here I am, on day 1!
This is to get back into the habit of posting on my personal blog. I call it a personal blog for several reasons...
It's not a "Content oriented" blog, meaning, I'm not writing for monetary purposes, and nor am I writing for any other reason beyond my actual LJ friends'list. However, now it goes out over my Facebook feed, which is fine. That means it opens me up to a much larger audience. It goes from 100 to roughly 600 - and I know that not all of those 100 people on LJ are in my "inner circle" so to speak.
So, my objectives are different. They're mostly for self archiving, and actual real news updates on my life. Facebook is awful in regards to archival data, it is also awful because it says very little about what is REALLY going on, I often want to write far more than a tiny status update. But I've gotten into the habit of frequently Facebook more.
At first it didn't take a toll on my livejournal updates. But over time, it began to. And I'm just not happy with that. I have a lot more to share with myself and my inner circle than just 3-5 updates per day in 1-4 sentence strings. That's the truth of it. And even in LiveJournal I was a high poster. I always feel bad about over-updating my Facebook, but realize that no one minds in LJ when you do this. Or if they do, they never told me.
Objectives are to keep a much more accurate log of my LIFE as I've used this venue to do this in the past. Also to get my words flowing better, to get some personal journaling done (I second this for self journaling, but I do it publicly). That and I know my inner circle misses some of my writing, and now that I have my life back (from the brief spell where my life seemed to vanish into an abyss of what I call grip-experience)... there is stuff to note!!!
Lots of stuff!
However, as I wrote in a status update yesterday for FB, not all entries will be public. Some will be friends'only (visible to just my inner circle) or some even private. This is because there are lots of things I'd like to process in my life and also record in my life, that aren't the business of 600+ folks. It's understandable. I would naturally guard myself from writing what is Truth if I was worrying about what my larger network would be reading. It's just plain fact.
Also, there are some of these inspirational quotes I post on FB that I wish I had in a grouped location. I mean in one place. Well, LJ makes that incredibly easy with it's tagging feature. I can begin to build my own inspirational scrapbook here. The parameters are going to be plain and simple, with this. Post once a day. More if I want. So here goes!!!
I'm already feeling happier with this. I love FB. I love FB for everything it is. But I also recognize I don't need to use it for everything. And I need to give back to myself a little more. That has always been writing for me. I need to start to really key into writing. Perhaps this will give way into more creative outlets.
In my next post, whether I write it later today or perhaps for Day 2, will talk about what is new and what is going on in my life. But I had to write this as an opener for my 30 day challenge. It is also really sad that my last post was about 2 months ago. Awful!!!
So, you'll be seeing me around, folks!
-Angela
