Blogging Rules - As Per My Instructions

So, you might notice that I am a prolific blogger, but that I do not blog every day. I have a couple of rules for blogging that I have developed over my years. They are completely random, personal, and vary based on my mood. These, however, tend to be the rules that I look for in the blogs of others - even though they are completely my own.

  • If you cannot write something that sounds coherent to you, then it probably isn't understandable by others. - This explains the gaps that I have in my blog at times. Take yesterday, for example. I started several different posts, but I just kept babbling and burbling my way through random thoughts. So, I gave up on writing. It just wasn't what I wanted to put out into the world.
  • There are some topics that I do not want to write about. Politics is at the top of that list. It is rare that you will hear much about what is going on outside my immediate world because that type of conversation tends to make me feel more stress than specific things like music, therapy, and me.
  • I do better when there are some structures in place for my writings. This is one of the reasons that I have themes to help me. Lately, I have struggled to be interested in any sort of music therapy stuff, which makes me feel a bit sad and isolated from the rest of the music therapy world.
  • Daily writing is important, but it is not the end of the world if I miss a day or two.
I have written 3,814 posts on this blog since I started it in 2006. That averages out to about 200 posts per year (even though the first years were not that post heavy!). It has almost been 20 years of blogging at this point. Strange to think about how much time, energy, effort, thought, dreaming, and ranting has gone on in 3,814 posts. One thing I know is that this effort has been the most prolific of my career, and I do not intend on stopping any time soon.

I will strive to follow my own rules, but it is a bit different these days. I am not sure where I will go in the next year of writing, but I anticipate that I will figure it out.

Thank you so much for looking at this little bit of the music therapy world and this bit of my life.

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