Is My Art "Blog-Worthy"?

I was listing a back issue of Artful Blogging(Spring 2009) into my destash etsy shop and while determining its condition, a photo caught my eye.

In hindsight, the photo itself wasn't important but the bold words "Is what I am writing or the art I am making "blog-worthy"?" is what truly caught my attention. They were from an interview with Maj Carita Hoenborg and it was talking about people worrying about not living up to others expectations.

It then went on to state that if this fear caused you not to post your art on your blog to "write nonsense posts or draw three ugly drawings, and throw them out." Afterwards I sat there a little dumbfounded and taken aback.

I continued listing items and going about my business but those two sentences stuck with me the rest of the afternoon. Why on earth would someone only write posts or create art only do it to live up to others approval? In addition, why would someone condone this behavior?

Personally I feel that unless you're a professional blogger or an artist commissioning work that if you're only creating solely for others approval you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

Sometimes your writing will suck and the art will come out looking like crap.

It's the nature of the beast. It's also how you learn to get better but it doesn't mean they aren't "blog-worthy". A blog is your little piece of the internet world. A journal of sorts.

I also feel that if you can't post a piece of work or writing without being able to take criticism (in general or constructive) then you aren't ready to post your work publicly to begin with.

Not everyone is going to like what you create. Hell, sometimes I don't even like what I create but mind you this...everything I create is worthy of posting on my blog. Good looking or not I have poured my heart and soul into it. If that doesn't make it "blog-worthy", then I don't know what does.

What do you think about something being blog-worthy?