Blogging angst

I have a confession to make. Sometimes I get busy and forget that I even have a blog, and that is one reason I go for long stretches without any new entries. But other times, I would like very much to blog but can't because I can't think of anything appropriate. It's hard out there for a blogger, especially if he/she is trying to strike a balance between writing something that's personally satisfying (like a good diary entry), yet still suitable for public consumption. With that in mind, here are my own personal rules for blogging.

What a blog entry should be, if possible:

• Personal
• Clever
• Written with readers in mind (i.e. Interesting, hopefully, to someone besides myself)
• Purposeful (Such as being a funny story; an update for anyone who cares about events in my life; or thought-provoking.)

What a blog entry should avoid being:

• Overly revealing
• Too clever
• Excessively self-absorbed (Though this may not be possible, given the nature of personal blogs.)

The end.*

*I'm not the first one to steal this neat way of concluding things, popularized by Sauj. It's nice and short and suits my bad habit of ending things in a hurry when I get tired of writing, like my newspaper articles back in the day.