Pretentious Blogging Meme
Posted by Tina Kubala at 2/1/2010 12:00 AM 
Categories: egocentric
Tags: self portrait sunday blogging meme
Categories: egocentric
Tags: self portrait sunday blogging meme
Sunday Stealing: The Pretentious Blogging Meme1. How long have you been blogging? My first blog was on MySpace. I started around September 2006. I registered TinaKubala.com in July 2007.
2. What made you start? My primary reason was to use blogging as a journal and to get back in the habit of writing. My goal was to be ready to start writing a novel in a year. Didn't happen.
3. Who inspired you? It sounds awful, but I hadn't read other blogs when I started. I was more inspired to follow in the footsteps of great authors who always advise that work comes before inspiration. That was before I saw blogging as an end in itself. Now, of course, I read too many blogs. I am constantly inspired to be a better, more honest and faithful blogger by too many to name.
4. About how many hours a week would you estimate you spend on your blog? It varies. First, we have to ask if visiting other blogs to leave comments and using Twitter count as time on my blog since they are extensions of blogging. Writing posts would be five to ten hours a week.
5. What kind of experience or background do you have with writing? Hundreds of hours writing in spiral notebooks from the time I was ten years old until high school. Journal entries, poems, short stories and other scribbles. It sounds sad, but I never had much of a social life, so I held the conversations about life with a steno pad. I don't feel sad about it, because I loved sitting at my desk with the blinds closed on a Friday night filling pages in response to some book I read.
Back then, too, I wrote letters. Remember when long distance phone calls at ten cents a minute was cheap? I was separated from friends Kate after seventh grade and Renee during sophomore year. I would keep a running letter for a week or two before mailing.
My formal writing background is only school stuff. I took as many English credits as possible. Lots of essays and book reports, plus creative writing. I miss it. And blogging fills the gap.
6. Talk about how you come up with blog topics. Where do you get your ideas? The best ideas come about naturally while going about my day to day life. An experience or conversation that screams "I'm blogging that" has a natural energy when translated into a post. Otherwise, I blog about books, movies, television, current events or do memes.
7. What or who inspires you and your blog? I'm inspired by the great and powerful idea that anyone with an internet connection exchange ideas with anyone else in the world. In the totality of human history, this is unprecedented.
8. Where and/or how do your brainstorming for your blog? Doesn't everyone brainstorm in the shower?
9. Do you have any blogging rules or guidelines you follow? I follow a simple rule in all my online activities: I am the same online as I am in person. In all reality, I'm a little nicer and a little more social on the web. Blogging under my first and last name helps keep me honest.
10. Is there anything you will not blog about? I do not air other people's dirty laundry. No matter what frustrations I deal with in interpersonal relationships, I don't blog about it. Goes back to number nine, plus I loathe drama and gossip.
11. Do you have any sort of a publishing schedule in terms of day of week or topic? The calender at my sidebar answers for me. I'd love to publish more often, but it doesn't always work out.
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