Okay so it turns out this was harder than I thought it would be.\u00a0 I wanted to start “blogging” and I figured it would be easy enough.\u00a0 I could think of countless times I had some interesting narrative in my mind regarding math or teaching or math teaching.\u00a0 I had always wanted to start putting those narratives somewhere.\u00a0 The blog made sense.\u00a0 Plus all the cool kids were doing it.\u00a0 So it was settled.\u00a0 I sat down with a group of teachers who I liked a lot, Carl offered to set up Coast2Coast and it was on.\u00a0 And then I had to start…<\/p>\n
Yeah.\u00a0 Well…\u00a0 In 2014 I had like 5 posts.\u00a0 I mean maybe 7, I don’t know, but it wasn’t impressive.\u00a0 I’m not thrilled with it.\u00a0 As the New Year begins, I’m re-motivated to write, but I’ve spent some time recently trying to figure out what made it so tough last year.\u00a0 Here’s what I can come up with:<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0 I’m lazy.\u00a0 Well I’m a lot less lazy than I used to be, which I feel great about, but I can still burn an hour doing not much at all and wonder where it went.\u00a0 I assume\/hope most people have that talent.<\/p>\n
2)\u00a0 It takes time.\u00a0 Like right now, I’m looking up at the clock in the corner of my screen thinking about how I need to make some dinner soon and how I might not have time to finish this blog about not having time to finish blogs.<\/p>\n
3)\u00a0 No one is reading my posts.\u00a0 Well Carl has probably read a few, or maybe all of them.\u00a0 Carl is pretty good at that.\u00a0 Thanks Carl!<\/p>\n
4)\u00a0 I don’t know what to write about.\u00a0 See I think this is the big one.\u00a0 The narratives I think of are often publishable, but many of them aren’t.\u00a0 Maybe they are too specific, too student oriented, too math oriented, or too difficult to describe without pages and pages of back-story.\u00a0 I find myself thinking, “Well I could blog about this<\/em> but no one knows about that<\/em>.”\u00a0 Which is silly because no one is reading anyway, but still<\/em>.\u00a0 Which brings me to…<\/p>\n 5)\u00a0 I don’t know who\/what I’m writing for.\u00a0 I don’t know my audience.\u00a0 Well I do, it’s Carl.\u00a0 But I mean I don’t know who I even want as my audience.\u00a0 Am I writing this for me?\u00a0 Is that what these posts are about until people start reading?\u00a0 Are they for personal growth only until I become a “cool kid” someday and actually have more than 5 twitter followers?\u00a0 Or should I write them as if I am cool and people actually are reading and might comment and might care?\u00a0 See, I don’t know.<\/p>\n I do know this:\u00a0 I’m getting hungry.<\/p>\n I also know that I like doing this.\u00a0 Writing.\u00a0 Writing about what I’m thinking.\u00a0 I even like writing about thinking about what I’m writing about.\u00a0 (That actually makes sense right?\u00a0 Write?)\u00a0 So I’m going to keep at it.\u00a0 Hopefully a lot more often this year.\u00a0 And hopefully as the posts keep coming I’ll start to figure it out and actually start making this blogging thing useful…\u00a0 Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay so it turns out this was harder than I thought it would be.\u00a0 I wanted to start “blogging” and I figured it would be easy enough.\u00a0 I could think of countless times I had some interesting narrative in my mind regarding math or teaching or math teaching.\u00a0 I had always wanted to start putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/nate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}