I started my first blog many years ago. None of us were friends at the time. It was probably around 2005/6ish when I debuted Single in a Sleeping City (which has been erased from the internet since then due to my mistake). I’ve blogged A LOT over
the years. One of my biggest challenges about blogging is how to take it seriously.
In the time that has passed since Single in a Sleeping City, blogging has
become not only a respected way of journalism, but a way to make means off your
writing. I’ve been all over the internet from WordPress to Google to Tumblr and
back. I’m sure there are some smaller platforms I've used that I’m missing as well. I’ve
blogged about relationships, life, being a black woman, being black in a
America, hot topics, interviews and reviews.
Consistency you say? No, I’m
not. My blog life is reflective of me as a woman/human in the fact that I do it
when I want or when I feel ‘the urge’ to. I don’t meet deadlines that aren’t
forced on me. I don’t allow it to be seen by the public unless it’s politically
correct. I don’t give my readers and followers a set schedule to know when to
expect me. Heck sometimes, I don’t even post the links. I’m an irresponsible
blogger. Currently I maintain two blogs, one of which gets the least traction
of my penwork: My relationship blog, #AMuseD and the Indpls Recorder Blog, Off
the Deep End”. Off the Deep End gets the less focus.
I want to change that.
So I’ve made some changes.
Using the avenues I’ve
been given, my consistency will be changing. I want my audience to trust that I
will post a blog. I want to not disappoint that trust. I want to consistently
produce my literary product. I want to be featured on For Harriet and BKNation
again and in order to do that, I have to step outside of my comfort zone, get
myself into a mental gear of professionalism and determination and get it going.
I thank you for reading this blog. I
thank you for any blog you’ve shared or read. Without your eyes raising the
number count, I might believe I was writing for nothing. I remember when Queen
passed I thought I would NEVER again have an avid blog reader. But that’s not
true. .
While I am 100% doing this
overhaul for myself, I am doing it for my readers too. Even if it’s only two of
you (it’s not). Many times I have been
told that my blog (this one in particular) has done something of positive
nature for someone, even if that positive was just letting them know that
someone else experienced the same or similar trials and issues. Who am I to NOT
be consistent? How long will I be content with being the wrong type of Muse for
myself? Your looking eyes push me to keep going. There is nothing like writing
a blog that you think is THAT BLOG and you look at your numbers and have ZERO.
But that is something I’ve done to MYSELF. I can’t blame anyonre for that. I’m
the inconsistent one. I’m the one that doesn’t post the blogs I've written. I’m the one that
says one is coming and it will be another week or month before it arrives. I’m
the one that will go a whole quarter without blogging and then pop one up with
crossed eyes that someone will be reading.
Each blog will have a more
profound focus as you will see below. The Indianapolis Recorder blog, which is
the one I blog in the least, will have four different focuses for each week of
the month. It makes no sense not to take full advantage of the platform that The Recorder is.This blog (AMuseD) will still have it’s
focus, but it will also be receiving a pro-haul (professional overhaul) of it’s
own. I’ve tried to reinvent myself
and get professional and do better at blogging many times, but to no avail. But
right now, change is happening in my life and to my spirit and it’s time to
either sink or swim in the blog world. I’ve been doing it for far too long not
be at AwesomelyLuvvie’s status by now.
2005? Come on son……..
So as I shoot for my star and my place in the world of
writer’s, I thank you again for being apart of this journey and for helping me
through it all just by reading. I encourage comments and shares. The private
time is officially over (for this blog). The focus is real. It is here. And
here I go…..into the abyss of my pen:
Blog Number 1:
Off the Deep End – Indianapolis Recorder Website
This blog started off as a
blog that is open ended in terms of content. I was given the green light to
basically say what I want and that’s what I did. This is my attempt tat balancing the
need for more readers and a better blog with who I am, what is on my heart as
far as content and how to grow as a woman, a writer and a professional.
There will be four blogs per month (one per
week).
Deadline:
Sunday, 5pm. Blog MUST be turned in. (I am not responsible for posting the
blogs so I can’t account for when they will post, but they will be turned in
each week on Sunday by five.)
Each week will have a
different ‘focal point’ that a blog will be written from as follows:
Week 1 – Black Life Matters
Content – Where to begin??? I have so much to say about BLM. I
have been virtually SILENT about some of the recent situations because my
exhaust system was down. For this content, I will chronicle a story about Black
Lives Matter. It might be a recent killing, trial, opinion, race relations, tensions
in the workplace for people of color, etc, etc…..there is really no limit to
the content that derives from this topic because there is so much and will
ALWAYS be.
Week 2 – Indianapolis Spotlight -
I miss doing interviews!!! I did those for awhile w/Midwest Leak and have a
good time learning about locals that I may not have heard of. I want to use
this space as an opportunity to create a platform for other locals (artists,
community activists, programs, teens, etc) to share their gifts and goals. Once
a month, I will interview a local person and do a writeup on them.
Week 3 – Love – This might be a pull from AMuseD (when possible) or a
retell (in PC language of course) of something on AMuseD, as well as any new
ideas/thoughts that fall under the guise of love.
Week 4 – Poem - One piece
of literary written poetry. Pretty simple. It will keep me writing poetry and
get some of the stuff that no one ever sees or hears out there in the public
eye.
****NOTE: Each blog will be titled with what it is,
followed by the actual blog title. For example “Indianapolis Spotlight:
Januarie York” or POETRY: ‘name of poem’.
This will help the readers understand the focus. I may have to come up
with more catchy wordings than “indianapolis spotlight and poetry and love’. So
stay tuned.
Blog Number 2: AMuseD
– Right here where you are (blogspot.theiisneversilent.com)
AMuseD will ALWAYS be
about what it’s about. This will not change; it will evolve, but not change.
Recently, I’ve taken a look at some of the blogs and saw a bad trend. They go
up and down and down and up and I don’t mean that in terms of emotions; I mean
content. In one keystroke I say that I’m about to breakdown Jill Scott’s album
and I start that…..then three blogs later I’m talking about the current state
of my love life and then another blog later, I am back to reminiscing on past relationships
(which is fine because that’s where this blog started). In effort to create a
better sense of consistency and pattern, I have come up with a way that lets me
still talk about all these things but puts them in a consistent format:
2-3 blog posts per month. Blogs due (to self) on Saturdays by 5pm.
Focus:
v SeriesN/ASeries - AMuseD is its own series but it has a series within it.
Actually there have been a few including the Creepshow series. The most recent is
the Jill Scott album breakdown. The series (named after her CD) is called
WOMAN. Moving forward, after this series concludes, a new one will arise. Just
like the Recorder, these will all feature the series title first, then the
title of the blog. (ex: WOMAN: Open.Close.Kneel.Stand.).
v Old Flame Story – Keeping with the
original content of this blog, this is as simple as it states: A blog about one
of the old flames, aka MUSES. I will return to the roots of using their Muse
Names and Inmate #s (because I liked that so much). I think I will call this
#FlamingHaute
v CurrencySituationz – I’m still on the fence
about this one but if I like it enough, I will use this area to speak in
currency. So the blogs about my trip to Cincinnati back in July would fit here.
As Tupac once said “Look
for me!!“
"Should I give up
Or
Should I just keep chasing pavements even if -
it leads no where
oh would it be a waste?
Even if I knew my place
Should I leave it there?
Should I give up?
Or should I just
keep on
chasing
pavements................." ~Adele, Chasing Pavements
~j
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