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A quote came across my path this week that lingered and rolled around as I mulled and chewed it over. "People's favorite subject is themselves." I reacted first by thinking, "Is that really true?" The more I think about it, the more I admit, even for myself, it's true. Could this be why blogging has become prolific? How many blogs do you know where the author is writing about something other than themselves: their families, beliefs, laughs, book lists, or adventures? For the record, the rhetorical question isn't meant as a judgment, just an opportunity to clarify an observation. So many of us work in some isolation that we need to choose to counteract, whether it's at home or a cubicle. Blogs and the internet provide endless opportunities for reaching out beyond our little worlds. Blogging gives anyone who wants one a voice. I realized after some observation, the blogs I return to again and again are either those authors I know in real life that I love to read or the ones whose primary topic is not themselves, but share common interests. In my instance they often review books. The blogs I drop off reading after a few months are often because I'm done reading about this particular author's day-to-day life. There's a slight light I think I see at the end of the writing tunnel. Its been there a while, but something in mulling the above statement made it click. Yes, some of us can write best-selling memoirs. But to move from writing as a wanna-be writer to a producing writer, the chance of "success" is greater if one writes beyond themselves, for the reader, with their favorite subject as a backbone, not the center. I can write about what I know, me, but if I really want to write for others, I need to be able to move beyond me. Just a thought. |
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