13 years after my beloved MySpace Blogs, I find myself wishing I still blogged. Often I will sit down and brainstorm on what kind of blog I would create if I were to start blogging again. Today I sat down with my work laptop to painfully catch up on budgets and data entry. Within minutes I found myself searching iTunes for a new song to download. I then caught myself organizing my desk. An interesting thing happened at that moment. I stumbled upon a notebook where I often write to-do list and other various adult life task. You know, financial goals, budgets, target payoff dates, home improvement priorities, etc. You get the point. Well, hidden behind these seemingly boring pages of adult responsibilities, I found a gem of an idea that I once had approximately 4 years ago. Tucked away and hidden in this notebook, I discovered 8 well thought out topics for starting my own blog. Immediately reading these 8 ideas, I decided the only way to blog is to start blogging immediately. So, yet again, I found a new task besides work to fill my time.
Now that I have ditched working at home to start my first blog in over 13 years, I am finding the urge to reach out to the readers for inspiration of my blogging endeavors. The 8 ideas that I found important enough to write down all those years ago, surprisingly still feel relevant and seem like semi-good ideas. I could make a few tweaks to the concepts (with your constructive criticisms) and find lots of endless ways to make them interesting or workable.
My question to the reader "which of the following 8 topics seem most interesting?"
1: A technical blog about automotive, mechanical talk. Include new product reviews and industry standards to show the reader inside topics to educate for knowledge and or consumer purchasing. The blog could easily incorporate technical service bulletins on common car talk to finding solutions to obscure information that may otherwise require years of experience or high dollar dealer only reference manuals. The ideas here would mostly focus on helping a reader with understanding the vehicles they own.
2: Blog about the importance of proper money management. Explain personal experiences and interview others for additional personal experiences of how poor money management leads to poor quality of life. Focusing more on the positive aspects of successful money management and the sacrifice it takes to achieve the goals.
3: Blogging about everyday DIY projects. Provide a full cost breakdown, step-by-step instructions, and multiple variations to inspire personal creativity. Blog focus would be pictures at first to maintain simplicity, but could later include video. The overall direction of the video would be helping break down a project to its simple basics so the novice can envision what they once could not.
4: Write a blog about my grandpa and his treasure hunting expeditions in his youth. I would include researching facts about the areas he traveled and talked about to help understand the factual accounts of these legends and maps he keeps. The blog would focus on captivating the readers with local Ozarks legends, predating civil war era. Through my own research and the shared knowledge of my grandpa, I would be continuing searches where he left off.
5: A family based blog (probably not for the public internet) The blog would be organized like a family tree but would have personal stories about each family member. This blog would be difficult to complete as it would require family members to participate in writing down memories about each other and experiences together.
6: A simple hikers blog. The blog would help fellow hikers keep up tp date reports about local area trails. Overall critical assessment of each hike. Confirm or debate current trail ratings and help to encourage others hikers to attempt something that may have otherwise not been considered due to reviews that may be outdated or simply inaccurate.
7: A narrative personal blog that includes everyday scenarios, fond memories of the good ole' days, reflecting thoughts and how they changed over the years, personal hypothesis and theories of life, etc. The blog would focus on keeping the reader entertained with witty banter, adventure, self taught wisdom, and overall generalness.
8: Blogging about how blogging has changed my life. (this blog would be difficult to start with, but not impossible) I would need a fair amount of time behind the keyboard to have new topics that would be relevant and entertaining enough to want to read. The idea is to start with blogs to help work myself into the novel I promised myself at the age of 25 that I would have completed by the age of 40. Through my series of blogs, I plan to incorporate personal experiences depicting how my life has changed (or hasn't) due to my actions to pursue my passion of writing. The blog would be mostly reflecting and afterthought.
