Continuing in the series on blogging, joining me today is RAFrenzy.  She is well known to you from her snarky, fun, irreverent blog at RAFrenzy.com.  When asked to provide a blurb she said, “Phew, what more can you say that I haven’t already?”  So, without more ado, here is RAFrenzy.

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J: Hello RAFrenzy.  Thanks for joining me. This is a casual informal interview.  Imagine us at Starbucks having a cuppa.  🙂
R: Just one?  😀

J: Why did you start blogging?
R: Obviously, I had something I wanted to say, and I chose this medium so I could say it where I was not emotionally involved with the readers; however, I’m finding that is not the case as I go on.  The potentially interactive nature of blogging makes it impossible for someone like me to remain detached from the readers. I love that aspect of blogging, but I also have to stand back from it at times as I know it might affect what I want to say.

J:  What is your stated goal in blogging?
R:  This blog is an attempt to do two things: understand the madness and revel in it!

J:  Do you think you’re any closer to your stated blog goal?
R:  My stated goal?  Yes, I’m much closer and have actually surpassed it in some respects, but my unstated goal is not met.

J:  How long have you been blogging?
R:  I started a blog in 2008, but I didn’t do much with it.  RAFrenzy began in early April, 2010.

J:  Why do you choose to write about anything on any particular day? 
R:  It’s a miracle for me to write at all, so I’m trying to become as comfortable with writing my thoughts as I am with speaking them.   For so many years I thought I couldn’t write anything that wasn’t strictly technical, but now, most days I write to prove to myself that I can.

J:  Why do you link to some stuff and not other stuff?  Again if that’s personal or irrelevant, please skip. 

R:  I usually refrain because of legalities and/or privacy.  Legalities are very easy to observe.  With respect to privacy, I try to live by the Golden Rule.  Although nothing on the scale of Richard Armitage’s life, I have lived in the public eye for years and understand the need to keep something back as it were. Hopefully, when I speculate about him, readers know it’s just that — speculation.  I do not know the guy nor will ever know him, but I do share thoughts I’ve had about him, and I doubt I’m going to stop doing that.  There have been times when people think I’ve crossed a line with that, but I have not stood in his front yard to get a peek at him nor published pictures which I felt were out of bounds. 

J:  What priority does this blog have in your life?
R:  Taken over the course of the last year and a half, I would say it’s had a fairly high priority even if other priorities in my life have eclipsed it at times.

J:  For whom are you writing this blog?
R:  Mostly for myself.  I do this with my piano playing as well. I play for my ears first and that seems to produce something pleasing to others.  With writing I spent so many years writing for others that it inhibited me in a way that beat any life out of what I was trying to say.   Since I’ve been writing more for myself, I think I might actually say something interesting every now and then.

J:  If you had to do it all over again, would you blog?
R:  I keep asking myself why I didn’t do it sooner.

J:  Could you have a blog not about any crush?
R:  I have another blog which was started before RAFrenzy and is decidedly not about a crush — although I do mention him a couple of times. 😀  I’ve also got another blog I hope to start with no plans to mention Richard Armitage at all.

J:  What pointers would you give to new bloggers scared to start out? 
R:  Start off anonymously. If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can scrap it and start over without baggage.  My first blog wasn’t anonymous, and I wish I had started it with another tone.  I’ve had to let it lie fallow for a while so I could in essence start over.

J:  Thanks Frenzy for participating.  As you can see, these are wildly easy questions.  😀
R:  Thanks for asking.   😀