refLECTURE XII: 'My Own Way'

I want to be blogger. That was the conclusion that I had come to. Blogs have always been a massive part of my media diet. Apart from Facebook and ASOS, the remainder of my favourites bar is blogs. I like fashion blogs, music blogs, photography blogs, celebrity blogs (both ones about them and by them), art blogs, crafty d.i.y blogs, and your more general 'anything goes' blogs. Fine, I'll say it. I love blogs. (I also love the word 'blog', hence the repetition.)

But more than anything I love the idea of being a blogger. Not one who blogs about lectures. No I'm talking a 'real' blogger. One that's driven by passion. My only problem: I'm passionate about a lot of things. A lot of things that probably wouldn't make for the most coherent blog. Fashion. Music. Comedy. Television. Video Games... and well, too many more. If there's one thing blogger's can't stress enough when talking to potential bloggers, it's find your own thing. Make your own market. Do your own thing. Go your own way.

I wish I could quote verbatim something our guest speaker Steve Molk, who started his blog Molkstvtalk less than two years ago, said. But honestly, my mind was just running overtime. Too much excitement filled me. Ideas of what I could and would do if I had that amount of internet traffic... or more. What I could do. Who I could meet. How I could present it. I was just too intrigued by the life of a successful blogger to really store things into the long term memory.

While I left with a million questions- what should be my niche, how often should I post, how should I structure my blog, how personal do I want it to be, how can I build my 'brand'- there was one certainty. I want to give this blogging thing a go. A real go. So I did what anyone else who want to do anything ever does. I Googled it. And after trawling through web page, blog post, and video after another, I found the key to being a successful blogger. And that's where I'm starting.