GodBlogCon 2007: John Mark Reynolds
November 8, 2007 Posted by Amy Hall
John Mark Reynolds had some good advice about how to not burn out as a blogger. He particularly emphasized the need for us to write less about ourselves and more about external ideas. Begin with an outer focus and then reflect on the inner implications. If we do the opposite, the likely result will be that we’ll become boring as we end up saying nearly the same thing every day (whatever our pet ideas happen to be), twisting every topic into a way to get our own agenda across.
Secondly, we ought to blog for the permanent side of the blogosphere rather than for our immediate readers. In other words, even as we’re commenting on timely topics, there ought to be a certain timelessness to our commentary so our work will continue to be of value. Posts that offer this will be stumbled upon and accessed by people for years to come, and in this way our impact will possibly be greater in the long term than we would expect from our number of usual readers.
As an aid to both of the above goals, Dr. Reynolds reminded us that the best new media relies on old media (books, film, etc.) and not on other new media. If we’re taking in great ideas and reflecting on them and their goodness, beauty, and truth, and if we make our goal to see the face of God rather than to exalt ourselves, we’ll persevere in creating valuable, lasting work.
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November 8th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
this is some good stuff you're getting there. Way to go in applying the advice you were sharing as you shared it.