I'm not talking about work, of course, but about daily blogging. Yes, yes, everyone thinks it’s easy to write a daily blog post, and, of course, everyone always learns that it’s actually quite hard to come up with interesting topics everyday. I should probably read up a bit more about this and be a bit more planful about what my topics should be. I should probably also start thinking about what to focus this blog on. I can list the things that I’m passionate about:
Art.
Video games.
Good food.
Good books, podcasts, and movies.
Writing.
Those are all extremely large topics, and if I touch on all of them, the blog might be very scattered. I could also focus the topics through my own lens. I can write about them from the view point of who I am:
A minority (Mexican-American and Filipino) American woman.
Someone in her late 40s.
A transplant to New England.
A mom.
I know that that still seems like a lot, but even the act of writing down these simple lists is giving me ideas for blog posts. That view point that is fairly unique to me lets me write about topics from a different angle. For example, my artwork is new to me -- I took it up in my 40s, always believing that you had to be born with that talent. Now I know that art is a skill, like writing is a skill. It has its own language (color theory, composition, line, shape/form, value, space, . . .). Once you know the basics of that language, you can experiment and branch out from there. You might stumble across these building blocks when you’re younger without understanding them fully. As an older art student, I can read deeply about these topics, and let them inform my art journey from the very beginning.
Yes, I think writing about those topics using my lenses; that is the key that will help me to shape my topics for this daily blog post.
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