On my sweeping journey around both the blogiverse and generalisations, I have noticed that we bloggers tend to write from one of five tables. Yes, only five.
These tables are more than our crafty talents, political leanings, parental status, gender, lifestyle, sexual persuasion, hair colour... well, these sort of differences are mere chairs, not tables.
No, as far as I can see, the blogs that really work all work from one of these:
1. The Broadcast Table
Generally produced by someone of extra-amazing talent, they tend to stay at their table and send their message out to the world. They either enhance our capabilities on some level, challenge our view of the world or they leave us turning a lurid shade of green. Either way, the people come to them, they need not go to the people.
2. The Kitchen Table
A day to day blog that chronicles the life of the blogger. The interest is in the details - they share their heartache along with their recipes. Visiting a blog like this is like visiting your best friend for a cuppa. We love their children like our own.
3. The Cafe Table.
These bloggers write about something they've been thinking about and then leave the conversation on the table. That topic is sometimes personal, but generally not. The cafe is very busy - you start a conversation on one blog and finish it on another.
4. The Coffee Table
Ooooh, pretty. The kind of blog we like to keep out on our Blog Roll - far too lovely to be put on the Reader shelf. Beautiful images, beautiful people, beautiful... stuff. Envy inducing? All of them. Vacuous? Some of them. Irresistable? Oh yes.
5. The Bar Table
This blogger lets it all hang out. Every mishap, every wrinkle, every thought, every scream. Seemingly written with a wine in one hand and a razor blade in the other, they are personal, funny and off-hand and completely addictive. We go here to kill ourselves laughing.
Maxabella loves... is definitely a cafe table.
Do you write from one of these tables? Have you found other types of blogs out there?