Blogs need gimmicks. They need theses as much as any other form of communication. They need a reason to exist.
Without that gimmick–“I’m going to engage in self-help by cooking all of Julia Child’s recipes in a year,”–a blog is boring and altogether unlikely to be made into a feature film.
So here’s mine: I’m a grad student, and I’m going into my reading year. It is my goal to post at least every other week a parody of my most recent reading, hopefully recounting the events of my life in a humorous fashion.
That’s the gimmick. It’s not always–perhaps not even often–successful. But hopefully it’s interesting.
Leave a comment