blog challenge: tell about your blog

So a few of my fellow bloggers and I are starting a challenge.  I would call it a "30 day challenge," but we are all too busy to blog every day, so it's more of a "30 post challenge."  The first topic is "tell about your blog" so we're all going to blog about that this week.  (If you want to see the other blogs participating, I'll put the links at the bottom of this post).  I'm going to cheat a little bit by kind of mixing the first and second topics, but I'm sure they'll be okay with that.  Sorry for the long introduction, but I'm pretty excited about this :)

I started blogging, in short, because of my best friend Kaylee. (She has a great blog called "my unfortunately not boring life" that's linked on the sidebar if you want to check it out).  One day I was reading her blog and felt so inspired that I just had to start my own.  Her blog is completely random--sometimes funny, sometimes serious, sometimes poetry, sometimes ramblings--sometimes she even uses things that she has written for school.  But I decided to make mine more of a poetry blog, although I have branched out a bit since the beginning.  I wanted to have an outlet for my writing so the people I cared about could see it, but would still not have a huge audience.  Using the internet was also nice because I could be as anonymous as I wanted to, but my friends would know who I was and what I was talking about.

In the beginning, I wanted only my close friends to read my blog, but I think I've changed my mind about that.  I've become much more comfortable with complete strangers reading it, although they will not understand it as well as my friends.  My blog is really for anyone to read, but it is directed especially towards those who enjoy amateur poetry.  It can also be used as a way to understand me better; somehow my feelings come through much more clearly when I write them down than when I try to explain them out loud.  Originally, I didn't tell anyone other than my best friend about my blog, but eventually I told a few others about it, and now I even link to it on my facebook page sometimes.  I realized that since I enjoy reading other peoples' writing so much, I should be fair and give them a chance to read mine.

I had no idea when I started this almost a year ago that I would enjoy it so much, but here I am.  I blog very sporadically, and it often gets forgotten in my busy life.  I tend to post the most during the summer when I finally have spare time, but I write throughout the year.  I am inspired by many things, but a few are nature, my wonderful friends, and my wonderful God.  I wouldn't say I have the best blog ever, but I certainly do enjoy it.

If you want to check them out, here are the other participating blogs: http://fondlylovingstars.blogspot.com/, http://writingthedance.blogspot.com/, and http://krazykay.blogspot.com/.  Happy reading!