Rock’n'Bloggin’Rollin’: Keep on Bloggin’!

I’m not a fanatical blogger. This isn’t because I don’t have a lot to say—I’m infected with chronic logoreae. There’s just something awkward, perhaps a little presumptuous, about posting one’s personal musings with the expectation that anyone else will care to “subscribe” to your endless contemplations. Okay, granted, we do live in the age of Twitter and Facebook status updates where people post a moment-by-moment update to their daily life. But why? Does anyone, not counting yourself, your grandmother, or possibly your significant other—people you probably see on a daily basis anyways—really care?

Have you ever heard (or perhaps more appropriately read) someone saying “I need more blogs to read”? Because I know I’ve seen these words written many times. I’m not sure what the fascination behind reading blogs is, but I won’t lie and say that I haven’t ever read them. Problem is, however, I’ve never “subscribed” to one because I’ve never actually found one that amused me enough to stick around—this may have something to do with my neurotic personality and inability to be consistent with one thing; hell, I find it phenomenal that I’m able to remain interest in one writing project long enough to finish it, though, I admit it takes me much longer than it should to complete one.

Here I am, though, bitching about blogging, and questioning the reasoning for all the madness…on my blog! Absurd, isn’t it? But I’ve begun to realize some things that, hopefully, will revolutionize the way I feel about blogging: 1) In my writing projects I fret over self-editing, proofreading, and making things look polished, but with blogging/journaling I just write down my thoughts, and don’t hassle myself with uptight correctness. 2) I have a mind-full of ideas, rants, philosophy, personal observations, and so much more that I need to find an outlet for. And 3) I may as well start developing (or at least attempt) some semblance of an online personality outside the small writing critique groups I frequent.

And I hope that some of my future blogging will be either amusing or informative, if not both. I won’t blog a lot about my writing projects in specific details to avoid seeming like I’m trying to cram my “awesome kick-ass” novel down anyone’s throat—please read the sarcasm between quotations.

I did write an article the other day titled “The Creative Writer’s Fitness Routine”. I’ll be certain to post it within the next few days—after a bit of light editing.

Note: Some may argue that if a writer can’t take the time to proof/edit his blog post then how serious is he taking his real writing? I would love to proof/edit all my blog posting to appease the grammar-obsessed masses, but quite frankly, I just don’t have the time to for editing these post, and writing and editing my real writing projects too—I do have a day job, you know? So kiss off.