Why a blog is like a box of chocolate

I think, therefore I blog...or something like that.

I'm B. A. Binns, a young adult writer, but even though a lot of young adults are neither blog readers or blog writers, I still blog. For me it's a little like talking, or maybe like writing. I blog because I have something to say. And, as much as I hope there will be someone to read these words, I blog for me as well as for them.

My blog VOICE and my writing VOICE are very different.  I sometimes get too intellectual when I blog, just as I may end up too colloquial when I'm writing.  That's partly because I edit the dickens out of my books, but not the blogs.

But mainly it's because I get to be myself when I blog, and I have to be someone else, the viewpoint character, when I write. I channel someone I have created, someone that can't be me, because the stories I write are not my stories, they belong to the reader. But the blog is all me.

So maybe that's the real reason I blog, so I can leave pieces of me behind. What goes down depends on where I am in life at the time I write, I don't run and grab the character sketch, I AM the character sketch. Before I sit down I don't know what I'm going to write. After I get up, I'm sometimes amazed by what I said, and how much of myself I end up revealing.

So, open the box, check out some of the chocolate choices in a few of my prior posts for Romancing the Genres, and tell me tell me if you like what you see. 

And if you blog too, let me know, I'd love to come visit some time.

Happy Blog-o-Versary

When I joined Romancing the Genre I was looking forward to blogging once a month and each month we were given a different theme. I found myself enjoying not only writing my blog but reading the others take on the same theme.

What surprised me was how much I learned not just from participating in Romancing the Genre but from the other members as well as the guests. I learned about new authors and new books. I also explored the blogs of more writers and learned from not only what they blogged about but how they blogged.

My blog, IT'S BETTER THAN YOU THINK, (elainecharton.wordpress.com) had been up for a while. I had originally posted it on another server and had moved it to Word Press. With the move I wanted to improve the blog, using the things I had learned up to that point.

My husband blogs almost every day but that wasn't for me. I found a schedule I could work with, at least three days a week. Then I knew I wanted to write about things I was passionate about. After all that's what bought me into the Genre-ista's. Our shared passion for the Romance novel in all it's many sub genre's.

The RTG blog fulfilled my need to blog about writing. In my personal blog I could talk about my other passions. When I'm not writing, or talking about it. I am reading and cooking so that is what I decided to write about. The rest of the time I would blog about whatever I wanted. Funny thing, I started getting people stopping by and leaving comments. Something that had rarely happened before.

So happy six month Blog-o-Versary to Romancing the Genre and to my fellow genre-ista's. I can't wait to see what the future brings.