My Exploration

For the last month or so I’ve been thinking about a new blog that I wanted to  set up. What should it be about? What would I write? What would it be called? What Should it look like? Is there a domain name available? Where will I host? These were some of thee thoughts going through my head over some weeks, but the ultimate question that keep coming back was – will I succeed?

Hard work and patience are not virtues that come easily to me, and so, as with many of these adventures into blogging that I have taken, I run  the risk of losing sight of the goal and becoming discouraged by failures – large or small.

Don’t worry, I really do want to succeed at this, but I’m making decisions in what Dr Scott Peck calls ‘the agony of not knowing’. I realise that there isn’t particularly any potential for a personal blog. I have way too many interests that I would want to talk about – and reading through the experience of Darren Rowse at ProBlogger has helped me confirm this. Truly, who wants to read the self-gratuitous ramblings of millions of people (myself included)?

So, it was with these things in mind that I set out to discover the what, where, when and how of a new blog for me. A run through a number of scenarios to begin with – like writing quite formal book reviews, and all that would entail (reading books I’m not necessarily interested in ) to writing a number of posts on topics/items of interest that have cropped up while reading a book & when finished the book writing an overall synopsis/review. It sounded like a winner.

I thought I’d hit the jackpot on the niche I wanted to enter, but about a name? Book Reviews? Thoughts on Books? Thoughts? Musing? I thought I’d hit jackpot again on Musing – only to find that Musing.com is taken, doh, of course. On further investigation, I found that bookmuse.com is also taken for a site that reviews books, no less! How discouraging, with none of the URLs I liked available, I was back a square one. It felt like this was the end of the adventure on this, and My Exploration – also felt like it was at the end of its adventure. But I have persisted, and I will let you in on the blog when it is launched, which I hope is soon – I’m sure it will be soon.