randomling | I want to post more, but I don't know about what.

Note for readers: I am just rambling here, not looking for advice just yet.

So I looked at

jjhunter's friending meme a couple of weeks ago and got totally intimidated because she asked about your journal's identity. And my journal doesn't really have one of those. Some months I don't post at all, and other months I post lots. I've posted about astrology, political stuff I care about, fandom stuff, my own personal life, health, work, you name it. There isn't a catch-all. I rarely linkspam. I barely write fic any more, never mind post any. Sometimes I write about programming, though for nym-related reasons I'm thinking about peeling that stuff off to another journal.

The thing is that aside from wanting to put programming stuff on another journal, I don't really want to limit the content. (I'd like to find ways to encourage myself to post more, and perhaps giving this journal a stronger identity, or set of identities, would help with that.)

I could post about mystical stuff. Astrology, tarot. It's a long time since I've done either of those things, but I was reminded recently (by

twistedchick's Tarot project, actually) that astrology, especially, is something I've done so much that the symbolism is bone-deep in me now. I'd love to understand Tarot better. I don't know why, but mystic symbolism is in my blood.

Writing is another thing that's in my blood - in a more literal way, this time, since both my parents were in the publishing industry. I think I've long since given up the idea of being a Real Novelist, but I'd love to write more fic, and maybe one day I really will manage to get moving on something of my very own. And if I do manage to get writing, I'd love to do some writing about writing.

Fannish stuff is also close to my heart. I have a relatively huge chunk of fandoms, as I watch quite a lot of TV, and I quite like writing down my opinions and my thoughts. There's some Avatar: The Last Airbender meta I should write, and probably more on Angel, either as I go or once I've finished the show. Currently-airing shows that I'm trying to keep up with include Haven, Fringe and How I Met Your Mother. I could probably write reams of meta about all of those, too.

I could write somewhat about my knitting, and either share this on

knitting or on Ravelry. That wouldn't help much with the content here, though. I'm currently making a bright blue sweater from a pattern by Elizabeth Zimmerman, and it does seem to be going rather well. I'm also wondering about Christmas knits and what I might do with my knitting time once all that is finished with.

Tech stuff might also be interesting to post about - perhaps not so much the programming, which is going to live Elsewhere, but what technology I use and what for. Useful for me as a reference as I figure these things out, and also perhaps for others.

Then there's the personal stuff. This could go a bunch of ways. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out some ways to manage/improve my health, find some financial support while I'm too sick to work, and (as always) continue to fight my monsters/brainweasels/inner demons. Plus there's the more practical side of unfucking my habitat, working out how much I can actually do at current spoon levels, and getting stuff done. I could post some more about that.

I think that this journal is partly going to be personal (stuff I post for me, either for reference or just so I can see it writen down) and partly for my readers and friends. And it strikes me that I have little to no idea what you guys are actually interested in reading.

So perhaps that's the next stage.

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mfb

Gah, I know the feeling. My blog is for me talking to myself (my logic is that it's a resource for anyone else who wants to see in my head, which they're welcome to do), mostly, but every now and then (lately mostly now and now) I go into "Oh no! Have to write ALL THE ARTICLES! And be involved in ALL THE COMMUNITY!" mode. Which leads to "But how much input do you have to write about that??" mode.

randomling

Yeah, it's rather difficult, isn't it?

For me, it's like: I started my LJ back in the day because everyone was doing it. I came to Dreamwidth because I love the project and wanted to support it. Now I have this journal and I am not very sure what to do with it. I was never very good at journal-based communication, though I'm trying to make more comments and be better at replying to them (hello!).

So yeah, it's a case of figuring out what I want to use this for, really.