It’s true. All desks I use are messy.
Writing a blog seems to be the height of arrogance. Do I really expect anybody to care even slightly about the minutiae of my everyday life? And do I look like a twat when I use the word “minutiae” in my first post? ‘No’ and ‘Yes’, I think.
I’ve never considered myself arrogant, so then logically I must have some other reason for writing (or at least that’s what I pretend to myself). And I do! My wife and I have recently started cooking and I need somewhere to store recipes and all that slowly accumulating and hard-won knowledge, and this actually seems like quite a nice way to do it. It’s like having a conversation with a piece of database software. Also, my main interest outside of work is photography, and this format will let me post pictures and discuss them with a view to self-improvement.
So there you go; I’m writing for myself. Not arrogant maybe but certainly selfish. I don’t mind if nobody else reads it; in fact I think I might even prefer it if they don’t, but then I can’t really say that can I – I’m putting it on the internet!
#1 by Nate on February 1st, 2009 - 10:37 pm
Welcome to the food blog world!
You yourself have to determine how much work you want to put into the blog and what you want to get out of it. Do you really not care that nobody else reads it?