Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Blog overkill

I'm feeling a little bit like I've jumped into this journaling thing with both feet and instead of landing in water, I've landed in something more like quicksand. And now I'm essentially drowning in places to write things, and the lines between what gets written where are getting a bit blurry.

I have this blog where I write about random things that I think about, and a travel blog that I put all of my pictures on, have linked to Facebook, and then email to my Grandmother, who has a real thirst for pictures. I have another blog, where I was writing a list of things that make me happy and poems that I like, and I actually started another one to document things in History that I find interesting. I was unable to make that one do exactly what I wanted, though, so I haven't written anything on it yet. Then I started going to Weight Watchers, and they have a blog feature on their web site for their community members to use, and so I started logging anything to do with weight loss and the program on that site.

At this point, I haven't written anything in my happy list for a year, my travel log is a year out of date, and I feel like in some cases I want to say the same things in this blog and my Weight Watchers blog.

I do believe that the solution is to combine the three blogs (Things I think about, Happyness List, Fascinating History) into one blog, keep the travel blog separate as its own entity, and make sure that the WW one stays limited to WW. Which will be good, because then I will only be writing in three places, and all will have very clear purposes, and I will feel much less like I'm drowning in quicksand. Which is a very desirable thing.

... Not that it changes what I am actually doing, which is actively writing in three places, but I already feel much more organized about it all.

Journaling really is good therapy, apparently.


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