Matt Davis writes:
Blogging isn’t for everyone. You need tenacity, and to a certain extent, the ability to shrug off rejection and haters, in order to succeed. Just putting up a blog in the first place is pretty tough, knowing it’s likely to be vilified. So you don’t always take risks, you play it safe, and don’t say what you were really thinking. Because you don’t want to be shot down for it. Which starts a vicious circle of getting blander and blander and less interesting. I’m only speaking for myself here, from personal experience. I have no idea what motivates others and I wouldn’t presume to say.
I’ve been lucky, so far, flying far enough under the radar (and in a nice-enough corner of the blogosphere — thank YOU, HighCallingBlogs.com) that nothing ugly has come my way. I’m afraid that if/when it does I will not behave well. In any case, I have to plead “occasionally guilty” to the type of self-censorship Davis describes here.
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