Tara Tainton

Why else would you read someone's personal blog over the daily newspaper? Or read the words of an unplanned blog instead of the pages of Microsoft's gargantuan website? You want the person that's behind the blog; you want personal thoughts, that which we just don't get in most forms of media these days. So, then, why do people blog about things that they wouldn't even tell their own friends if they ran into them on the sidewalk or wouldn't find worthy of "calling home" about? Why would they think anyone would want to read that?

What we want, as readers, is to connect with someone else through a blog, to hear thoughts similar to, yet different from our own. We read a blog for the same reason we read any book: we want to be moved. We want to be stirred up in some way, get some small or large effect that we aren't feeling when we first sit down to read. So, there's where the freedom in blogging lies: pick any topic and you can soon have a long list of faithful readers. You just have to continue to stir them when they visit. Choose your emotion, switch to a different one everyday, but keep your readers affected.

And then of course, we want the writer's personality, her thoughts, his opinions. We want to know someone else, gain a different perspective, be forced to think about our own. We want to be moved to think, to comment, to feel something different. If you've got that, you've got a successful blog, no matter the topic. And you're a successful writer to boot.

So, where does my blog fit in? Well, I hope I get a little bit of leeway for just having started. New to blogging, I am not. But I'm already covering another niche in my 1.5-year-old blog. Here, I'm in search of one all over again.

A writer I am, among many other things, and this site focuses on my writing in the genre of erotica and my enjoyment for and fascination with sex and playfulness in general. So, my blog should extract a bit of all of that along with an element of "me." My professional goal (and sort of a personal challenge) is to write daily entries, but that's definitely presenting difficulties. Sometimes, I'm not feeling particularly creative, or I'm distracted, or I'm feeling "blah." But I want to be right here, writing to you. I want to show you being a writer is all about, what one person's take on the genre of erotic is, how you too can stay motivated and tickled pink about your own interests and goals, and why it's not a bad thing at all to have sex on the brain all the frickin' time. Through telling my story, you'll learn more about your own. And if I'm lucky enough, you'll decide to share a bit with me.

So, I'm going to keep struggling to keep my blog real. And I'll try my best not to flood you readers with completely transparent topics and thoughts or boring stuff to just take up space. Let's not waste either of our times.

When I'm feeling "blah," I'll make up something, or insert something, completely deep and utterly interesting. At least, that's my intention.

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Vasper Janik | 2008-07-07 18:32 Vasper Janik 05/05/2005 03:26 PM You're rarely "blah" Tara...note I said rarely ;0). Don't feel pressure to be new every day on your blog, it will tire you out my sweet. Instead, reserve your energies, both mental and physical for those special moments that lift you up & spin you round.

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