Somehow I’ve now managed to involve myself in a fourth blog, which is probably not a good idea since I’ve rarely been updating my existing three as it is. However, the fourth is a collaborative blog that was started as a lark with two others just for some fun, comedic writing.
It all started when one of the visitors to my other writing blog said he’d be willing to read my vampire story, as long as there were no “sparkling douchebags” in it. And one thing lead to another and before long we had a little round-robin story started about a glam-punk band known as the Sparkling Douchebags who sing about vampires and wanting to be one. So now we’re all pitching in and creating backstory and character bios, and writing the scenes. I’ve never been involved in a collaborative project like this, so even though I’m the blog administrator I am hesitant to seem like I’m running the show. After all, the story wasn’t my idea to begin with. This has been a learning experience already in how to set up such a blog and have multiple authors, and since it’s all in fun I have to remind myself not to take it too seriously.
I just wonder if I’ve bitten off more than I can chew with everything else I’ve got going on. Then again, there’s no rush to write the story of the Sparkling Douchebags so I probably shouldn’t stress about it anyway. It’s been good for a laugh, and I’d like it to stay that way.
If you’d like to watch the story unfold (albeit, it’s likely to be a slow unfolding) it’s all over at Murder in the Mosh Pit.
On top of four blogs, I’m still working on the vampire novel. So, we’ll see if I have more on my plate than I can manage.
I’ve been having a ball reading about the Sparkling Douchebags.
Regarding having more than one blog, I’ve been toying with starting one regarding my German language study. Maybe I will in the near future.
I’m a little late to the party here, but have you read “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris, Gypsy? It’s a series of weird, hilarious little essays, but taken as a whole, they all advance the theme of an American trying to express himself in English and French.
I like being able to separate topics. Not everyone wants to read my bicycling stuff, so it’s nice to have all that separate and not bore people who don’t care. I think keeping them targeted to certain topics makes it more likely someone who likes one post will come back to read more on the same topic. If it’s too random it seems people lose interest.
I know how it feels having so many blogs, I’ve considered getting rid of my music blog just to concentrate on my knowledgelost blog, which happens to be a combination of a few older blogs (cultural lessons, my literary journey and my writer blog) There is just so many options I need to try and limit my blogging to one, my problem at the moment is deciding whether to be on wordpress.com or wordpress.org
Ha, well, as you can see I’m in the same situation. And not doing a very good job of keeping all my blogs going. I can imagine your music blog must take a lot of time, that must be nearly a full-time job in itself. I started this one to start ‘building a brand’ so to speak, since this is the name I will publish under, should I ever be lucky enough to be published. The others are more just personal stuff.
You can get your own domain at WordPress.com for a pittance, but it will have some limitations I think. I’m running this blog through a separate hosting company, and I like some of the aspects better here, but some better at WP.com (it’s easier there, they do so much for you as far as loading widgets and various options). On this one, I have more templates to choose from, or have one designed for me, etc., and can pretty much do whatever I like, but there is a learning curve for me. I still haven’t learned CSS which is something I’d really like to do, among other things.
my music blog did get abit to much, i was aiming for an entry a day which meant i had to listen and explore an album a day, which is hard to do when you work full time and your interest has changed to something else. So now I’m aiming for an album a week and I do little tricks like the feature album on the home page, which is normally an older post just brought to the front to make it look like my site is more active.
As for wordpress.com I do have a domain knowledgelost.org but I’m still torn. I’ve had experence in both wordpress.org and .com on one hand .org just gives you so many possibilities and customisable features, but .com offers random readers. I would like to somehow get the best of both worlds so i think i need to stay with .com for know until i get better stats.
As for CSS, I don’t know much but I’ve been practising on music-domination with customising the theme. And if you ever do become a published writer i’m sure you can get someone to design your blog for you
but for now; plugins and customisable themes make the blog 
Yeah I’ve added it to blogsurfer a few times, as well as a few others. But I’m not to worried about it anymore, I will always love music and continue my beautiful collection, but I’ve discovered this new passion and I’m planning on focusing on that. I definatly won’t be able to post once a day in that blog, but thats not really the point of the blog, I just keep a record of all the things i’ve been researching and discovering. Who knows it may become a basis of a non-fiction book
That’s a good way to go about it. You never know what could be useful in the future.
Thats try, I love blogs for the simple fact that it’s a great way to compile all your research
You are both much better than I am about keeping up – my last blog post was to announce who won the Oscar pool – oh, and a little mini-chapter for Murder and the Mosh Pit. Since then I’ve gotten busy checking in at D.D.’s various blogs, and doing stuff for work, and I just have to accept the fact that I write something every day, and that’s better than nothing. My friend McCaustic over at maryjblog tells me that I should try to update it every day, but he works in publishing and is sort of giving me the same advice he gives his pro’s, who are, as you say, building a brand.
Oh ugh, I can’t do everyday. Meg Gardiner amazes me the way she posts something all the time. And she was just here in Portland and I missed her! I think Sue Grafton was there too, doing a book signing at Powells. If you’re going to do something every day it has to be just a small thing, like a newsy thing, or a fun article you found in the paper that you want to share. That’s what Meg does a lot.
One of my issues is having so many divergent interests, I try to separate them out into different blogs so I don’t bore people who aren’t interested in say, bicycling, by talking about it on Filling Spaces. I’ve toyed with the idea of yet another blog for my Tarot interests, since that’s pretty targeted too and not everyone cares about that stuff, but then I feel I’m becoming too fragmented.
I kinda like seeing the tarot stuff on Filling Spaces or Wandering Mind, b/c I probably wouldn’t think to research that stuff on my own, but when you post it, it always intrigues me.
That’s good to hear, because I’m working on a post linking Tarot, alchemy, and vampires