Building This Blog: The Bottom-Up Approach

When I first starting blogging, I only wrote about what I wanted to write. I enjoyed writing, I wrote regularly, and never found it hard to keep up.

As the noughties decade crept towards its end, however, I tried to create a "focus" for my blogs. I think that was where I stumbled. The more I tried to narrow my area of focus, the less I enjoyed it, the less regularly I wrote, and the more often my posts seemed forced.

In the process, I have learned some things about myself. One is that I will never be a food-only, books-only or theater-only blogger. I will always have multiple themes. Another is that I may add pictures to my blog, but for me, the pictures will always have to play a supporting role to the writing.

This time round, I have decided to go back at least partially to my original approach and to write - to write for myself, not for the stats, not for comments and not for anything else. And I have decided to wait and see what themes (if any) emerge from this blog. I have a feeling that sections may emerge, but I want them to emerge naturally.

This time, I am not going top-down. Like anyone trained in the object-oriented approach to programming, I am building this blog bottom up