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there were some excellent answers to these questions in the comments and on various blogs, so thank you to everyone who took part (and to anyone who still wants to, please do!) these are my own answers…
if you are a blogger, how would you describe what you write about? are there specific themes you stick to or a style you use? (feel free to add a link)
i write a hodge podge of daft stories and pictures, with occasional posts on things i’ve learned about mental illness and brain injury. i don’t really intend a style, but i think my stories tend towards the odd and my health stuff is very focused on sharing solutions.
do you write driven by inspiration or do you struggle to find things to say?
i try to write three posts a week, and sometimes that involves more thoughts than i have, so i try to keep a backlog of ideas.
which kinds of posts do you most like writing? do other people like reading them?
the stories. i like to play with ideas. i think people tend to like them. although often i write something i love, but nobody else really notices; or i post a story that i think is so-so, but readers love it. i am not good at predicting opinions.
what wouldn’t you ever write about? why?
i don’t want to slag anyone off (although sometimes the temptation is there). i do write about real situations in stories, but i make sure i play with the characters enough to remove them from reality. i try to avoid complaining posts; although they can be interesting to read, they make me feel miserable when i write them.
what’s your favourite post that you’ve written? (again, add a link if you like) what did you like about it? did other people ‘get’ it?
lost islands of xogulano these are very much niche fiction and i know they leave most people cold, but they’re probably the thing i’m proudest of. i just love mixing science and imagination, but finding ways of doing so that aren’t typical sci fi. some of the bi posts are also very important to me, like overcoming panic and phobias, because they were hard won lessons. i suspect much of the stuff i learned recovering from a brain injury is alien to people – close friends didn’t understand what i was talking about most of the time – but i like to know they’re available to anyone who might relate to them and find them useful.
what’s your favourite post that someone else has written? what about it caught your attention?
there’s there’s this short fiction by wordwitch. i like it because she mixes poetic images with pure oddness; making a funny and beautiful story, with complex ideas contained in a tiny space. and booky glover wrote this poem, booky’s poems always have melancholy elegance and for that reason they stand out.
do you keep a blog because you want it to lead somewhere? or do you just like writing?
i do like writing, i feel lost when i don’t write. however, i also have a bit of an end game – i’ve written two books now, one published, one not yet, and i hope by blogging i can find people who like how i write, in the hope they might also like my books.
what sort of blogs do you most like to read? personal? stories? factual? pictures?
all of those. i think i like a variety. i love reading a good story, but then i get curious about the people who wrote them and i want to find out more.
what kind of posts put you off reading?
bitchy, bitter ones. bigoted, hateful ones. fortunately there don’t seem to be many of either on wordpress (although i might just be missing them).
is there anything else about a blog that puts you off (eg fonts, popups)?
anything that makes the writing difficult to see – hefty side bars, odd fonts. and i hate popups, i think they’re rude. on my blog, i want an email sign up button linked to my mailchimp account, and trying to achieve that without using popups has been seriously complicated.
when do you write and read blogs? from work? on the toilet? inside a volcano?
at home, in the one chair that doesn’t wreck my back.
how do you find other blogs to read (or do you not)?
i follow many, i go looking under tags to find more. one of the best things about wordpress is how many brilliant blogs are on here.
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