GBE-R.4 Motivation and Expectations

 WHAT WAS YOUR MOTIVATION IN JOINING THE GBE GROUP, AND WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO GET OUT OF IT?

This is easy. Way back in Myspace days, and shortly after dinosaurs roamed the earth,  I learned what a blog was. My first couple of blogs amounted to “What is this blog thing? What do I do with it?”

Those two sentences were the sole content of my first TWO blogs.

I wrote a few more, just to have a reason to write out some of my mind drivel. It’s best to get it out of my mind so it doesn’t continually rattle around in there. After those oh-so-exciting blogs went unnoticed for days (okay, maybe weeks or months) someone actually read one...and commented on it!

Holy crap! Their comment indicated that they actually liked it.

Before that, the only people that had ever read anything I wrote were school teachers, who merely corrected my grammar and spelling, or people that knew me, and were probably just being polite.

But a stranger read my mind wanderings and enjoyed it enough to bother making a comment. Granted, it would be another month before I realized I could reply to their comment, but I was hooked.

I wandered into a couple of blog contests and groups. No, I never won a blog contest, but more and more people started leaving comments on my mind musings.

If someone made a comment on my blog, I would be sure to stalk them, err, I mean, check out their blog and try to leave a witty comment there. Usually, I would add them to my friends list. Sometimes, the comment sections of the blogs were as fun to read as the blogs themselves.

Since everybody just had screen names (mine was NiceInOhio) it gave me a certain anonymity to write whatever I felt like and let the real me out. The crazy, irreverent and sometimes naughty me that I usually reserved for extremely close friends.

Hi. My name is Lee I am a blog addict. 

I am relearning how to find my way to all the other blogging platforms and leave comments, hopefully, not leaving too many comments with the name “anonymous”

My motivation for joining this group is to get inspiration (in the form of a prompt and from other writers) to write again.

I hope to regain some of the camaraderie that Bloggers on Myspace had. I hope to read some good blogs that will make me think, learn, or wonder. I hope to write blogs that will amuse, amaze, or at the very least, help you waste some time and not feel too guilty about it.

And yes, I realize I could have just started out with the last two paragraphs and been done with it. But where is the fun in that?

What do you like about writing or reading blogs?