Post 100: Nostalgia and Branding

I'm the girl who was NEVER going have a blog. Many of my friends had one. Several writing associates had one. Family members kept pressuring me to start one, but what can I say? I'm a rebel. Police put me on edge, politicians turn me to rage, and social "norms" leave me debating arson. So how did I, the rebel, end up with a blog?

This one started as a beta reading forum ONLY in 2009 and has steadily become...

Yeah, I don't have an answer for that, but hitting post 100 has given me pause to think. Why do I blog?

Why do you blog?

Been reading a great deal about branding yourself in the blogger nation, and really finding your niche. So, to help us (pointing to self) in this process, I've compiled a couple questions:

1. What is it you know? (Writing, computers, field mice, parenting?)

2. What is it you enjoy about blogging? (Reading, writing, networking, socializing, learning?)

3. What do you hope to accomplish with blogging? (Taking over the world, selling books, making friends, astonishing people with your fabulous knowledge of cheese?)

Blogging should be tailored to your interests--after all, you are the author. It should be something you like to do, not just another weekly/daily chore. (Heaven knows we all have enough of those!) 

To answer #2 up there, I enjoy blogging most when sharing something I'm working on--be it the first 250 words, flash fiction, blurbs, tag lines, books etc. (Ironic--considering that's why I started a blog in the first place.) Right now I'm finishing up another book (#6) to be beta read here at the end of the summer: Faux Pas. Hoping you'll stop back in and join me for that adventure.

Back to my roots. What is your reason for blogging? What do you enjoy most about the process?