donpeat.com

I’m a terrible blogger.

I realize this likely isn’t the best thing to type on the Internet – particularly when I could one day be applying for a media job where blogging is the primary task – but I’ll risk it.

I started this blog back in university as my official election website.

This was the first incarnation of donpeat.com

Yes, my name is Don and I’m a recovering student politician.

After I won the election, I didn’t really use the blog again until I went to Honduras for seven months.

I had just graduated from UWO with my Masters in Journalism and was working for an English-language weekly newspaper there. The blog was a way to keep in touch with friends and colleagues back in Canada and to post some of my work.

Let’s face it when you’re traveling a lot, a blog sure is easy to write and more likely to be interesting for people to follow.

When I came back to Canada, the blog writing took a back seat to newspaper writing and days of ignoring the site turned into months which turned into years.

My job is writing so after a day of writing – I wrote over 600 news stories last year and I’m already over 500 news stories this year – so coming home and writing a blog isn’t exactly the first thing on my to do list.

But I like to write and it seems to be a waste to have a place where I can go and write whatever I want.

So here I am, almost five years later and I’m going to make a new effort to blog more.

From what I can tell, the key to any good blog is consistency.

I will make an effort to be consistent but I will also try not to post frivolously.

I’m not sure what I will be blogging about – likely whatever strikes my mood and whatever I’m interested in at the time.

Feel free to give me feedback, it is appreciated.

Cheers,

Don

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