The experts all say that the key to good blog content is to focus on a particular area of interest. Find a niche and carve out your real estate. Well, sort of. I’ve been looking at my own blog and wondering how to improve it. Don’t get me wrong, most of my faithful readers love reading and keeping up with my daily ramblings. However, I find I want to reach out to more than just my close friends. I want to reach out and touch others who might be able to either relate to my situation or at least be able to learn something from it.
That makes my “area” a whole bunch of things: the web, being a military spouse, an unapologetic geek, an incurable bibliovore (ah guttaperk, you never realized what you started, eh?), amateur photographer on indefinite hiatus, housewife, technophile and last but least, Jamaican immigrant to the USofA. Of course I could just lump that all into “my life”, but how do you market that?
My guess? You don’t.
You see … I take great pleasure in writing about my everyday experiences. It’s a form of catharsis, a form of communication, a form of staying sane, a way to put my life out there so that I (and anyone else who’s reading) might catch the hint of some underlying lesson to be learned or passed on. An archive of experiences for my own and others to reflect on years from now. I am a complex person by nature and even if I didn’t want to keep my hands in every single pie I can find that intrigues me, I would still have too much shit to talk about.
No. I need my blog to remain my outlet, the one place I can say what I want, how I want, when I want.
I figured I needed to separate the parts of me: the serious blogger trying to teach the lessons she learned and the silly blogger who has to share the trivialities of life. I tried setting up a separate domain – and fyrfli.org was born. It was fine for a while. Then I started to feel torn. It started to be a burden to maintain them both. I spent more time trying to figure out how to cross-post without mistakenly posting my kitteh pictures on fyrfli.org or my discussion of military spouse benefits on just fyrfli.net instead of both. I spent more time with the tech of managing them both than I did writing. Eventually, I just gave up. fyrfli.org remained barren for about a month before I did something.
That something was to import the posts from fyrfli.org here, redirect all traffic from fyrfli.org here and spruce up this blog to look less like a whirly gig and more like a place of coherent expression – full of various subjects for your reading pleasure.
And by the way, in case you were wondering, ALL the fyrfli.org posts (and comments, I believe) are here too:
So, while I continue to read and take advice from the pros on how to create the perfect blog, I will also continue to do my own thing. Who knows what could happen? Right now, I am not interested in copying the masters. Right now, I’m interested in my own shit … how to purge my head (and trust me, it’s ALWAYS full of stuff – more on that later) and maybe touch a few of you in such a way that you come back for more.
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