As I have mentioned in a previous post (I Am Blogging About Too Many Topics), although I feel good about blogging daily—after all, it’s not just a daily writing practice, it’s a daily publishing practice—I don’t like that my blog is unfocused.
It’s not that I write about too many things; it’s that I write about too many things from too many angles. This ever-shifting terrain doesn’t give the reader any firm footing about who I am or what I am about, which limits my ability to grow my readership.
Now, up to this point I have been blogging daily in order to find my own writing voice. It’s been an internal journey, not an external one, so I haven’t specifically focused on external reach.
It’s also been a (mostly) successful internal journey. I do know what I want to write about: the high stakes game of finding one’s purpose, one’s ikigai, especially in a technological world intent on dehumanization.
However, now the crux of the question is how to write about this topic to reach others? What are my best tools? Non-fiction? Fiction? Poetry? Blogging? Micro-blogging (tweeting)? Perhaps even podcasting (a form of free-form voice writing)? Some combination of all of the above?
Anyway, over the next 7 weeks—from now until the end of the year—I am determined to answer these questions—because next year, I am going on an external journey.