Bucket O' Bulletz

I have answered the questions posed by Brian for a blogging classe he is teaching. He is asking that anyone who wants to participate in answering the questions to please email him: brian at reillyville dot com with your answers or the link to your post with the answers.

1. When did you start blogging? Why?
I started blogging in 2004 when I was invited to LJ to hang online with my high school buddies.

2. How would you describe the writing style you use on your blog?
Honest and candid. I don’t like to beat around the bush, but I do like to use vivid imagery from time to time.

3. How often do you update your blog?
Daily, sometimes every few hours. It depends on what I am up to for the day.

4. What satisfaction do you get from blogging?
I love sharing my life and insights with a broad audience. Once upon a time I was going to go into advertising or journalism, but this is the same deal with perks. I get to stay home with my son and do what I love. I am making a part time income online. It’s great. Even before I started blogging for profit, I would blog every day. Just take a look at my Livejournal entries and you will see how my one blog grew to a blog-pire in less than 2 years.

5. What blogs do you read regularly?
I have about 30 blogs from friends to tech news to quotes in my RSS aggregator. I love to read about other people’s lives and things that interest me.

6. Do you have any suggestions for someone who is just starting out as a blogger?
Don’t think too hard about it. Blogging will start to come so naturally you will be mentally blogging things for when you get a chance to publish them. Let it flow from you as naturally as your thoughts. You can start out just writing about your day, things you plan to accomplish, your children, your pets, or anything that piques your interest. The rest will flow from there.

7. What’s your definition of a blog?
A place where you can be yourself and let your mind be free.

8. Have you developed any online or face to face relationships as a result of your blogging?
A good number of online relationships have become face2face friendships. Some of my long time friends on the net are people I may NEVER meet in person, but we have been friends for years already. It doesn’t matter if we never meet, we are truly friends. Most of them I talk to on the phone anyway HAHA.

9. Please provide a link to one of your blog entries which you like or which does a good job representing the style and/or content of your blog.
I can’t do that. They all make up parts of the whole that is me. In order to get all sides of me you would have to read a good number of my blog entries on all my blogs to find out where I am coming from.