How’s A Girl To Choose…

…a niche, that is?

I have been all over Blogsville today!   First one link, then another, to the point of no return.  I don’t even know where I started. 

I’ve been  very slowly  trying to learn how to build a blog…this blog.  Keywords: slowly, trying.  I’m handicapped  when it comes to anything computery.  I’m computer illiterate, with little knowledge and even less vocabulary.   

In my bloggy travels today, I came across this link that got me to thinking about “finding your niche”. 

I was very interested…boy have I struggled with this!  My niche?  I HAVE NO IDEA!  Sometimes I wonder if I’m just a complete wierdo who has no place in blog-society at all.  Alas, My Camo Colored Life, to the rescue with a post about this very thing!  It helped me breathe a little easier until I can decide on my niche…if I ever do.     

Thank you, Camo,  for “permission” to be niche-less!”

Like most women, I’m interested in, and indentify with, lots of different people and topics.  Every time I try to think of a specific niche in which to place my blog, I stress.  What if I pick a niche, only to want to write about something completely off topic?  Then what?  Where does that fit? What if my blog never fits into a niche?  Then is it pointless?

I have written, so far, about what’s going on in my life or through my mind, most of  which was before realizing there was such a thing as a “niche”.

Since learning of niches, I’ve often found it difficult to write.  I freeze up, not knowing where I “belong” or what my focus is “supposed” to be.  However, I don’t want my committment to a blog-niche to keep me from being real and disversified.  I don’t want to have to “think up” topics that fit into the box in which I’ve placed myself.  

I’m not saying that I don’t want my blog to have a focus.  I do.  I need a little focus in my life and I think that defining my blog would also help me to have more purpose when I write.  Maybe I just want my focus to reflect the bigger picture, to be a broad focus.  Maybe I just don’t know yet!  I do know one thing…I want to be able to keep writing and relax until I figure it out.   

There is still SO much to learn and understand, and it’s not just all about blogging and writing.  (I’m still tryin’ to figure out the what-nots of puttin’  it all into this here machine I’m peckin’ on!)  This blog looks and functions nothing the way I’d like, but it’s a place for me to write and learn as I go…slowly! 

TLD

Oh and P.S. 

I joined the SITS Girls, which I have no idea how to use.  But hey, it’s a step.