Thanks to the Community Blogger Award I’ve been stretching my wings somewhat and finding lots of new blogs to sample and enjoy and one of the things I’ve noticed is that a lot of bloggers are very organised in their blogs.
There’s Menu Plan Monday, Monday Missions, Fun Monday, Tackle It Tuesday, Jump One Jump Twosday, Philanthropy Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, Heads and Tails, Flashback Friday… it goes on and on.
Now I have nothing against having a plan – I plan at least two blogs a week – and they both revolve around Australian Idol – Sunday and Monday – I know… tragic. And my other “thing” that I do is every time I finish a book I blog a “review”. I say “review” advisedly as sometimes they are simply. “I read this book. I didn’t hate it.” And this is for me so I can look back and think to myself – hey I did read a few novels this year by gum!
I note that most of these theme memes (and I’m sure there are others for the rest of the week) are for the start of the week which I think could act as a good kickstart to your blogging week. They also give you an “assignment” and sometimes having some restrictions on what to blog makes you more creative rather than overwhelmed with the possibilities. It forces you for example to find “that photo” for Wordless Wednesday or Flashback Friday.
Some of them like Menu Plan Monday and Tackle it Tuesday – give acknowledgement and encouragement to do those mindless and unthanked tasks we might avoid otherwise.
(In fact I’ve been toying with the idea of Menu Plan Monday because really, it would be a good thing if I planned beyond the one day occasionally… And if I did Tackle it Tuesday there would be a lot fewer half empty packets of cereal in my larder and not so many moths.)
But I don’t want to feel hemmed in on my blog.
It’s my place for freedom of expression. Where I get to just, you know, hang.
And my fear is that if I started doing the weekly meme-theme thang that it would soon become not a daily blog but daily slog. That I would come to resent the computer and my blog because it was giving me homework.
I’ve never been good at homework. Or housework come to think of it.
I’m also fearful that I’d get stuck in a routine and my blog would become less interesting… at least, less interesting to me.
Are my fears groundless?
Are you a fan of the weekly task blog? Do you find it helps your writing/planning/life?
Do you like to read other meme/theme blogs?
