And platform.
As long as I've been a blogger, I've often paid more attention to one of the above than the other. (I'll let you click through my blog to determine which.)
I search through Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr. I play around with templates, sidebars, colors, gadgets, widgets.
And then I wonder why I'm up until 3am, and my blog still hasn't been updated.
That tends to be my M.O. when it comes to any type of writing. I'd rather read books about writing or compare books about writing or browse writing forums or discuss writing than actually...you know...write. These other activities make me feel like I'm committing to the craft, but they don't fill notebooks or Word docs, do they?
Same with blogging. Dozens of times, I've considered switching to Wordpress, but have become frustrated when trying to set up some of its more advanced features. After reading a couple of articles about how hip and cool Tumblr is becoming (perhaps by the founders or stockholders?), I perused that site as well.
While texting with a tech geek buddy of mine, I explained my goals to update the look of this blog, or start a new blog or...
...and he shot back with, "Content is more important than platform."
I hate it when he's so correct. And so succinct.
The exercise of this month is bringing content back to this blog. Perhaps sooner than later, some of it may actually be good content.
And maybe someday it'll move to Wordpress.
But for now...content.
"The Republicans have a me too candidate
running on a yes but platform,
advised by a has been staff."
—Adlai Stevenson
It's the old "ass-in-chair" approach. As in, if your ass ain't in the chair writing, then it's really hard to get something read or published or whatever.
ReplyDeleteAnother sage who called herself "scriptgirl" used to say "you can't sell it if you don't write it." Boy ain't that the truth?