First Entry

Dear Blog,

So this is my first blog entry on Blogger. Hooray! Huzzah! Now that I think I have things set up roughly the way I want them, it's time to begin writing some insightful stuff.

But as most writing projects go for me, I ask myself before anything else, "Who in my intended audience?" A paper for class? Easy, the instructor. A comment on YouTube? Teh 1nterwebz. Text messages, letters, notes, messages, and other short, written forms of communication are dependent on the recipient. But who should I write this blog to? To some of the close friends I know who will read it? Too narrow. The Internet as a whole? Too hopeful. To myself alone? An interesting stance. If I write my blogs to myself, my voice will (hopefully) be as true as possible. It should retain my personality (in contrast to APA, which rips my voice away from my papers, leaving them soulless and alone) and it makes blogging a truer form of "web logging". And if, perchance, I want to read these entries five, ten, or twenty years down the road, the format and style should be fairly familiar to myself.

Next question is slightly bigger: What do I write about? Well, keeping in line with the "write to myself" theme, then I can write about anything. Will I censor myself? Probably not, since there isn't much to censor. What if my mom reads this? Then let's hope she gains insight into her son's life and mind that doesn't horrify her. What if employers read this? Then they're smart to find the "real me". If they choose not to hire based on my writing here, odds are that I wouldn't have been employed there long in the first place. What about my friends? Nothing should shock them. In fact, this might strengthen friendships already in place. Without any real limits, the chances of creative work increase significantly. Maybe I'll post poems? Short stories? Random musings? Daily life? I hope all will be featured throughout the course of this blog.

Now we're on a roll. Audience? Check. Subject matter? Check. Frequency? Ehhhh, problem area spotted. I'd hate to set a schedule for blogs. Everyday would be fantastic! Twice or more? Splendid! But will I maintain that rate of blog posts? Probably not. Not on purpose, don't get me wrong, but simply because this is a new venture. And I might run out of interesting stories after a week or two of writing. Let's hope I get one written every other day. My apologies to future readers if my work is enthralling, yet my schedule is sporadic.

I think I should wrap this up now. I'll jot ideas done for future blogs, and maybe repost older blogs from MySpace. I'll search my hard drive from poems and stories fit to put online. And maybe I'll ponder the meaning of life tonight, too, just see what happens.

Until next time,
Daniel Golden