One Thousand Words

My blogging life is more integrated with Dreamwidth than it is with Live Journal. For instance, I crosspost my babyblog to DW, but I don't to LJ.

I originally started a separate pregnancy blog because I wasn't sure if I'd carry to term or not. If I had a miscarriage, I really didn't want to deal with people knowing about it until I'd gotten a chance to process what was going on and move to a better place. Sometimes sympathy, for me, makes things worse. And then I went through the 2nd trimester and started mentioning that I was pregnant and had a blog about it, but I still kept things separate.

I think part of that is that I didn't want to bore people on LJ with baby stuff; and part of it is that I was worried about talking about nothing BUT pregnancy/baby stuff. So I kept the two separate so I could see how I was doing, see that I was making non-baby posts as well as baby posts. Because babies? They are freakin' huge events and will take over.

I feel a little more comfortable including baby stuff at Dreamwidth, maybe because my persona over here isn't quite as established or maybe because the kid is older and not as all-consuming and I know I can balance my life a bit.

Anyway, just thought it was interesting, how I use the two blogging services differently.

Hey, people in my circle.

Let's make a pact.

Every day that you're online, scout around dreamwidth. Find one person you don't normally comment to and comment on an entry. Pick a community that looks cool or that you're a member of and don't normally post to/comment on, and leave a post/comment. Post something of substance in your journal. Start a conversation. Engage. Enrich the community.

I've seen people reluctant to leave LJ because there isn't the community on DW that they're used to. Well, of course not! DW is still new and the community is still being formed.

Get out there and add to it.