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Things what are converging:
Apr. 6th, 2011 04:41 pmSo -- I just realized, last night that Blogging Against Disablism Day is just about three weeks away.
Last year, the official announcement didn't come until the last few days of April. Would it be very bad form if I replied to the announcement post from last year, and asked: "Are you doing it again, huh? Huh -- are you?!" or only slightly bad form?
Also, since the moderator who runs this blogfest is doing so from a Google-Blogger platform, I was reminded me of my dormant, died-in-its-infancy blog. At the start of this year (or was it the end of last year?), I got the notion to start over, with a slight shift in perspective, that maybe I could have more enthusiasm and energy for.
And just within the last two hours, I got the idea that maybe I could use B.A.D.D. as a launching event (posting an intro post a few days early, then have my B.A.D.D. post be the first real content), and thus, maybe, start it off with a wide-ish audience who are actively looking for new blogs to read, many of whom are on that one platform, so it will be easier for us to connect to each other. {?????} The idea being: if I know I have an audience greater than one, I'll be more inclined to actually write and post there, regularly.
But: I'd still like to have the primary focus of the blog, in general, be storytelling and folklore (and mythology, proverbs, and the like).
So: the idea came to me to make my blog's focus: "Disability as portrayed in the stories we tell." Sometimes, the emphesis will be more on disabilities, and sometimes more on the stories. But whatever, the stories will be older ones, rather than the more recent, self-consciously "About
Disability" stories. I might go as far forward in time as 100 years ago (so I could include personal favorites like The Secret Garden and The House of Arden duology, and still have an excuse for not going anywhere near The Ship Who Sang).
And also, with "Disability in Folklore" at the center of my focus, then I could also, sometimes, just post a pure Ableism rant, or just post a favorite story because it's a favorite story, even if it doesn't have a simpleton, hunchback, or blind person in it, and still be "on topic" for my blog...
Right? ...I hope so.
Last year, the official announcement didn't come until the last few days of April. Would it be very bad form if I replied to the announcement post from last year, and asked: "Are you doing it again, huh? Huh -- are you?!" or only slightly bad form?
Also, since the moderator who runs this blogfest is doing so from a Google-Blogger platform, I was reminded me of my dormant, died-in-its-infancy blog. At the start of this year (or was it the end of last year?), I got the notion to start over, with a slight shift in perspective, that maybe I could have more enthusiasm and energy for.
And just within the last two hours, I got the idea that maybe I could use B.A.D.D. as a launching event (posting an intro post a few days early, then have my B.A.D.D. post be the first real content), and thus, maybe, start it off with a wide-ish audience who are actively looking for new blogs to read, many of whom are on that one platform, so it will be easier for us to connect to each other. {?????} The idea being: if I know I have an audience greater than one, I'll be more inclined to actually write and post there, regularly.
But: I'd still like to have the primary focus of the blog, in general, be storytelling and folklore (and mythology, proverbs, and the like).
So: the idea came to me to make my blog's focus: "Disability as portrayed in the stories we tell." Sometimes, the emphesis will be more on disabilities, and sometimes more on the stories. But whatever, the stories will be older ones, rather than the more recent, self-consciously "About
Disability" stories. I might go as far forward in time as 100 years ago (so I could include personal favorites like The Secret Garden and The House of Arden duology, and still have an excuse for not going anywhere near The Ship Who Sang).
And also, with "Disability in Folklore" at the center of my focus, then I could also, sometimes, just post a pure Ableism rant, or just post a favorite story because it's a favorite story, even if it doesn't have a simpleton, hunchback, or blind person in it, and still be "on topic" for my blog...
Right? ...I hope so.
