Untenanted

     

Photo by Mikael Kristenson
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Why do people start blogs in the first place?  What is it about blogging at the start that changes by the time the work is set aside?  What are people hoping to get out of the work?  

     Should they have changed their expectations when they didn’t receive what they’d been hoping for?  Is there a natural stopping point that people reach, or maybe even exceed before realizing it?  When personal interest in a creative project fails, who benefits from the creator continuing to soldier on?

     I’m sure that every different abandoned blog out there would have different answers to each of these questions.

     A diligent, well-trained, and possibly financed (at least with time) researcher and statistician could probably come up with answers from the sea of data at our fingertips (just click “next blog” up above and see if there are posts from this year, or even 2015), but for us poor armchair analysts, broad and obvious principles will have to serve for a starting point.