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The Path of Self-Discovery is Rarely One Without Speedbumps

One thing about blogging I have discovered is that you learn a lot about yourself and other people when you dare to take that step out into the blogosphere. I’ve met a lot of great folks over the past five months. I’ve experimented with blog platforms, niches, layouts and directions… finding one after another that certain things did and did not work from an artist and writer’s perspective.

One thing I know for sure now is that one blog is all that I can keep updated at this point in my life. Sometimes it’s hard enough to just do that one. While starting a second venture always sounds exciting and rousing at the beginning, it’s not long before you have two mouths to feed instead of one. So I must admit, the idea I had for starting Figpress was a good one, but lack of time has made it impossible to sustain as a regularly updated blog on its own. So late last night, I finally made the choice to consolidate my two blogs yet again. All the posts that were part of Figpress have now been integrated into this blog… and any more fantasy writing topics will be explored here in the future.

I learned a lot from the short time I was working on Figpress. Namely… the difference in motivations between that blog and this. I began this blog with the goal of getting some experience in web writing and to have a few pieces to show in hopes of landing some freelance work somewhere down the line. Then I shifted ideas after becoming a part of Entrecard and other blogging groups, hoping to appeal to other bloggers as readers. And then I remembered that I wanted to be a freelancer, so I shifted back to a more formal concept. So… WW has gone through a lot of styles and plans… but none of them have fit the feeling that I really want for my blog.

I was discussing things with Rach today and one of the major things on my mind is that this blog stands too far outside of all of my projects at Sygnus.org. This, to me, feels wrong… because my projects there have been my major net identity since long before blogging even existed. So my goals are to find a way to do the following:

• Integrate styles and content from Figpress
• Find ways for my Sygnus projects to support this blog and vice versa
• Discover the real direction, attitude, voice and feel that I want for this blog.

Basically… I need to do some soul searching… figure out where I stand and where I want to be. Especially where it comes to finding ways to make all my projects mesh together with this blog.

Now that you’ve heard my rambling… as you can see, I’ve started by giving this blog a new look. The truth is, though I stared WW to find a pathway into freelancing, I was able to hook all of my freelancing work WITHOUT the support of this blog at all. So, once more, I’ve decided to go for something more artsy and less formal in my theme.

Question!

So… what sort of discoveries have you made as a blogger? Are there projects you’ve started only to work yourself into a dead end? Do you end up learning more from “failed” attempts than from “successes”?

I’d love to hear about it!

photo credit: Daquella manera