Thursday, March 10, 2011

Blogging

Ah, blogging. I was talking with a friend the other day about his limited free time. He loves to game, he loves to write, he loves to read, he commutes to work and has a 2 year old and a 2 month old and he is at odds with how to spend his free time. I have the same types of pulls on my time and I often default to mindless gaming. But his lamenting did raise some questions for me on “what is a writer” and how in this day and age does one fill that desire.

This then made me think about my blogging efforts. I go very long periods without blogging anything. I am always planning to blog and have lots of things I would love to get down in a blog, if nothing else to have a search-able repository of things I find interesting and it less gated and controlled than facebook. I never blog like I think I should...or certainly in a way that I think might be useful for me.

But, if you think are are a writer or you love to write then blog. Maybe no one will read it. Maybe your writing style is poor. I have certainly been out of school and out of practice long enough that my writing is often borderline horrible. But blogging is inherently selfish. We control it and we put what WE want others to perhaps see. Or not. None of that matters. If you want to write, then write. And I suggest you start and write a blog and update it whenever your brain tells you to.