The Art of Blogging

I have thought for some time now about the art of blogging. If you know me well, you probably know that I really don’t like talking about myself or talking myself up to people. It’s not something that comes naturally to me and in the end it probably works against me in my line of work. As an independent musician and photographer, I am my own marketing and advertising department and in order to be successful in business, I need to saturate the market with my brand (myself): meaning I have no choice but to actively be present in the social networks online, talking about myself and what I do.

One of the ways people do this is through consistent blogging. I have repeatedly made failed attempts in the past to blog consistently, failing every time for numerous reasons: busyness, lack of direction, nothing to say. I don’t consider myself to be someone full of wisdom or coherent thought, so maybe my lack of self confidence is to blame. Every time I sat down to write in the past I never felt like I had anything to say or write about. So instead of trying to think hard about something profound to say, I’ve decided to just blog about things and topics that I know something about and things and topics that I love. DUH.

If you know me well, you know that I like to take a planned and organized approach to things. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. Regardless, I’m going to give it a go here.

Be on the lookout for an upcoming blog series on being a musician, singer/songwriter in the current economic and cultural climate from a business and artistic perspective. I’m throwing around the idea of putting together a blog series on the art of songwriting as well. If you think that’d be worth reading, let me know and I’ll give it some more serious thought.

For now, I’m finding beauty in the broken, and clarity through the eyes of God, simply by being still and listening.