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For the frequent posters/bloggers here - what is your relationship with writing? I was reading Freddie DeBoer's fifteen years of writing where he reflects on his journey, and lord it is dark! I have aspirations of becoming at least a part-time blogger, and I do have a small blog, but don't work on it often.
I suppose my question is, do most people hate writing like Freddie after a while, or is he just uniquely crazy? I know there's a trope of mentally disturbed writers....
I'm not a prolific writer, but I used to keep a blog, every couple of days, for probably eight years. Under my real name, because it had started as an assignment in college, and just kept going. One day, someone I was working for brought up the blog as a problem, as proof that I was an insufficiently cheerful person for the position I was in, as a a prelude to forcing me to leave what I had been doing. I never blogged publicly again.
The only pre-blog writer I can think of who would have flourished at it is GK Chesterton.
In general, it seems almost impossible to continue putting out high quality writing at a typical blogger pace over long time periods. I used to read Rod Dreher's blog, but he puts out negative content like mad -- three or four articles about something that upsets him a day, sometimes! There's no way that's healthy. There's a religious blog I quite enjoy (Fr. Stephen Freeman), and it's been going along nicely for quite some time now, and he seems to be doing fine with it. I suspect Orthodox priests have a better support network and feedback for what they're saying than bloggers, and his blog posts are an extension of his in-person talks and sermons.
Personally, I would like to write again when the children are a bit older, but perhaps for a small group of people I know a bit about. Blogging was the best when I would get comments from a handful of people I could either talk with in person, or whose blogs I also read. Or perhaps even letters. Not even emails, but physical letters. Maybe I want a penpal or something, and also send original watercolors.
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