I am thinking about starting a new blog soon, with a different pseudonym, which will be a bit more personal and intended for family and friends who are far away, around the country, and as a space for a lot of essays I write on contemporary and modern culture, science and some creative nonfiction. Some of you can email me and may be I can share it with you (given that I know of who you are in the blogosphere/in my blogroll). It’s not going to be a documentation of my everyday life per se, but an overall blog that represents “me” more than girlwhogotbored. Sure, girlwhogotbored has her place, but she is a relatively stagnant and I dare say, fading character. I just can’t relate to her anymore. She could evolve to become a more cohesive blogger, or I can shed this skin completely and start anew.
I am, however, not abandoning this blog. I have invested a good amount of time in the last year on this, however, I feel I could really use a change in topic or a wider variety of topic.
Funny thing is, this blog is as personal thing I have done, but I feel like if I start a new blog, it will represent more my intellectual side with a very vague background of what’s actually going on in my life. I will try to connect everything to a bigger picture, which is something I don’t do as much here in my opinion. I sort of need this to focus on my public persona, and better articulate myself in writing, in a space totally controlled by myself, outside of school.
I won’t be putting any links to that blog for all the world to see here, if I actually decide to follow through with this plan here, because girlwhogotbored needs to remain a separate entity for those I know in real life, but some of you are welcome to take a peek at my public persona, through some writing that is more intellectually focused, and pictures from my daily life and walks around downtown Toronto and elsewhere.
So what do you think? Should I do this? Or just totally revolutionize this girlwhogotbored’s character and just not invite family and friends onto here?
2 responses so far ↓
ecrivain // September 13, 2009 at 1:11 pm |
From personal experience, I started up a separate blog which I thought was more representative of me and which I shared with family and friends — but that didn’t work out the way I thought it would. For one thing, one friend was a little “too” into checking in on the blog and it would creep me out when she’d reference it whenever we talked. For another thing, one of my cousins took issue with something I wrote, which was meant to be funny, but which she thought was vulgar and unclassy.
In the end, I made that blog private and used it just for me — and I liked that a whole lot better. But, as you can tell, I still keep up my other blog…and while it hasn’t been a total revamp, I think I’ve started to reveal other sides of me as well, though, I guess you’re right, what we choose to write about in our respective blogs turns us into these “characters” and you sometimes feel buttonholed into what you can write about in that blog.
I think that if you want to start up a new blog that’s more representative of you, that’s great. Be wary of who you invite to read it because “real life” people may not react the way you think they would…but yes, you may want to consider starting to inch this blog in a new direction so that your readers can see more of the real you.
girlslashwoman // September 16, 2009 at 3:44 am |
I think it’s a great idea. I have quite a few blogs- all reflecting different states of my personality (this one being by far the most personal) and it makes me learn about myself from many different angles. The blogs aren’t linked to each other and I don’t ever want them to be. They are seperate entities.
Anyhow, I hope hope you don’t abandon this blog. It’s tougher to maintain in the beginning when you’re focusing on creating an identity for your new blog but I love reading this one, I hope it stays