{"id":714,"date":"2013-09-10T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:38:31","slug":"more-monday-thoughts-on-blogging-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"More Monday Thoughts on Blogging and Kidlit"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had such a fantastic conversation in the comments after my post entitled “Rekindling My Love for Blogging<\/a>” that I wanted to reproduce some of those comments here, in the hopes of sparking more discussion–because I really think it’s an important subject to think about, the whole “why we blog” question. It’s informative, for me anyway, to read what others think, and inspiring to find out more about why others gravitated toward blogging and why they are still doing it, and whether their motivations for doing so have changed over the years. Here in the kidlit world, things do tend to change quickly–genres, cover design trends, and so forth. And of course things change in the technology world faster than you can say “Google owns my soul.” But as readers and writers ourselves, not to mention being a sort of buffer between the content-creators and the content-consumers, what is our role and how is it changing? How can we keep our enthusiasm going?<\/p>\n

I don’t have any answers (if you know me, this is no surprise. I am much better at asking questions than answering them) but the responses to my prior post generated some intriguing food for thought, not to mention sparking some new blogging-related ideas. Here are some of those responses:<\/p>\n