Good Grief! How Many Blogs Does a Person Need?

A few years ago we crammed into tightly packed bleachers at our high school with friends to watch the Junior/Senior Prom grand march. It seemed like a good place for a church youth director to be, cheering on our high school kids who’d cleaned themselves up and put on a pretty good parade of dresses and tuxedos.

As one of the couples promenaded down the aisle, we spied a young lady who was more likely to be seen in sweats on a basketball court than in a formal gown with glamorous hair coiffed a good six inches over her head.

On seeing this, our friend’s young daughter blurted out, “Good grief! How much hair does a person need?”

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This has often been my thought as I browse the haunts of other bloggers and see that from time to time a writer will have more than one blog. Good grief. How many blogs does a person need?

Seriously. I have trouble keeping up with one. And what makes a person’s words so special they need more than one place to deposit them?

Well . . .

You can now ask me that very question. How many blogs do I need?

Because I’m launching a new one today.  Readers, meet Breviloquence.com.

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Now, just hold on. It’s not because I think I’m that special and that so many folks are hanging on my every word that we’ve run out of room and I need to tear out some walls to expand.

It’s more like this.

You’d never know it from this post, but I’m trying to learn how to write more concisely. Write a little shorter. Not have to use so blasted many words to get the idea out there.

I’m doing it for the simple purpose of training myself to write within certain constraints. I’m hopeful it has a positive impact in time on what you get over here.

But, if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear, does it make a sound?

If a blogger writes and no one is there to read . . .

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This is my self-reward for getting done with the move project without throwing out the baby with the blog water.

I invite you to come along if you’d like. I’ll give you a little credit for being able to figure out what I mean without having to write it to death. It’ll give me the freedom to do some things that might not be such a good fit on ADS. (That stands for A Different Story — but only counts as one word instead of three — I’m getting the hang of this already!)

Come on over to Breviloquence.com when you get a spare minute. I have a few posts up to get you started. It’ll take you just a quarter of the time it does over here.

And yeah, that’s a real word. Can’t imagine why it wasn’t already taken.

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