I also find it an extremely useful exercise to flesh out thoughts and ideas on a blank page (or screen) as it helps my rational process along. Often, I’ll find myself halfway through a post and realise that I’m writing about something completely different to what I initially intended. Clearly, there was a thought up there in my mind (every now and again one pops out) struggling to get out, but I didn’t know. Writing about something different, yet related, helped it surface.

All this can only be good for me as a photographer, and hopefully others might find it helpful too.

Having just started blogging myself I was wondering the same thing. “Oh, gosh, did I inspire this series”?

I think that is a natural feeling when your follower base isn’t as strong as some. I agree that reading and rereading posts is very important. I’ve decided I best not do them when tired and, as Seth Godin says; don’t just say something to say something. It is better to say nothing than just post.

It has been helping me figure out certain aspects of my photography and I love to just write again. My biggest obstacle right now is chiseling out some time to write prior to posting while still finding time to work on my website, pursue leads, pet my dogs, not eat ramen every meal and spend quality time with my loving and very patient wife.

All in all I’m really glad I started.

Writing on a blog is an interesting beast. It is a different type of writting. It is so easy to bang out words without clear thought and direction. Very shortly after finding this blog I wrote a horribly concieved and badly written piece based off something David wrote. Somehow I even dragged Matt Brandon into it too. Well, I learned some things. Read and reread posts to make sure you understand what you are commenting on. Make sure you are commenting and not ranting. You are writting. You do need to carefully craft your words. It is not “just a blog”, it is words representing you.

Anyway, I am still learning how to create posts that read well. I can write well in other things I do, but blogging… let’s say I still need practice.

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With that in mind, I’m happy to post a photo I think I like (and sadly sometimes I know I don’t), and then give an unrelated post about my life, and thoughts and that’s worked for me – because I’m not trying to get a job out of it – but I am trying to connect with people of potentially similar mindsets. Make some friends, and maybe, just maybe, inspire someone to give this photo thing a try.