A friend of mine celebrated the 1st anniversary of his blog the other day(http://burdly.blogspot.com/). I've known The Seeker for almost five years. We met in grad school during my second class. Jeff is a character. He often enters a room by announcing, "Hi, I'm Jeff Burd," even if he knows everyone there. Jeff has really grown as a writer. He's much more structured when it comes to his work than I am. He has really gotten into research with his writing over the past year or so, and has taken his talents in other directions.
Jeff's latest blog entry laments the past year, and the 67 entries his written since he began. One thing he stressed is that he has not recycled any of his old essays. The ones, I assume, he wrote during our grad school days.
This got me thinking about my blog. That and the fact that I am roughly only 2 1/2 hours away from the place where I wrote my first blog entry on January 14 of this year. I'm in Little Rock, AR, sitting in my underwear on my bed at the Holiday Inn. 210 posts ago, I was sitting in a Panera Bread, alone on my birthday. I didn't start the day thinking I would begin writing a blog. I didn't think I would be challenging myself to write something every day for a year. I didn't think much about it. I just opened up my computer and started writing.
That's really what happens with this. I sit down at my computer and just start writing. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad. I'm not sure if my writing has gotten better, worse, or has stayed the same. I certainly have recycled some of my old essays because, by nature, I write a lot about myself when it comes to nonfiction.
This blog has had the same theme since its inception: looking at my life over the past 39 years. I have no idea what will happen on January 15, 2010. I'd like to think I will keep writing. I'd like to think I will look back at each of the supposed 365 entries, rewrite some of them, and see if I can find a home for my work. I'd like to think I might be able to put each of the entries together, and see if I can find a publisher to turn it into a book.
Maybe I shouldn't think so much.
hey, lulu.com publishes blogs...literally drops your blog into book format and voila. I hard cover print mine each year through blurb.com, but they specialize in typepad blogs...its pretty cool to have a collection of my writing.
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