I've been meaning to do this for awhile now. The thing is, sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better if I stopped. I'm sure you have better things to read, but that's not what I'm getting at. I just spend a lot of time working on my posts, and yet I don't spend much time at all. Here's the list.
PRO: It pretty much forces me to write every day. This is the main reason I started.
CON: The quality of what I write here isn't very high. I don't spend much time on imagery or word choice. It's all about getting my thoughts out, and fast. The main reason I might stop: I also don't have time to write much but blog posts.
PRO: It helps me to remember so much more, from thoughts to events. I love it because it's a history of my life, and I can bring back the state of mind I was in when I wrote those words.
CON: The posts aren't that indicative of my pure thoughts, because I write them for everyone to read, and they would just be so much more boring than they are. It's not exactly personal, either, though that isn't a big issue.
PRO: I have an audience. That's the factor that causes me to write every day. And I love that I occasionally make my friends smile.
CON: I have an audience. I therefore write as if I'm talking to my friends, and while there is no problem with that, I like to write in a variety of voices. That just isn't happening right now.
At the moment, the pros outweigh the cons, but that could change. I like blogging, though...much more than I believed I would.
Friday, May 26, 2006
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You'd better not stop writting in this fucking blog, so help you god I will destroy you if you stop. It's one of the only things that I do every day. Put on my grandmothers' ring, put on my makeup, do a handstand, read Anne's blog. So don't you dare stop or I shall kill you....hehe
--Alanna--xox
p.s. You are always making me smile Anne :)
I know this blog is inactive now, but I'm sort of hoping you still might be checking your notifications, or whatever they are. Or not. Maybe it's better that you don't. I don't know.
Anyways, I came across your blog and I'm completely fascinated by it. I absolutely love your writing style.
Now, the reason I am commenting specifically on this post and not your others (though I do like everything I read...) is because I can relate so supremely with your back-and-forth on the concept of blogging. I just needed to express that to you, if not to encourage you further (after all, this blog is now inactive), then simply to say how I feel.
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I'm in my Modern Philosophy class right now, not paying attention, reading your blog instead... I hope this comment isn't incoherent or containing random insertions of words like "Descartes" and "reproductive imagination", and I guess I do hope you read this.
You're an inspiration.
All the best,
S
S, thank you for the lovely comment. It somewhat astonishes me that anyone should still be looking through these old notes, but I guess, like you, I am happy that they are being read.
Blogging was very much an outlet for me during high school, particularly in grade eight, when I tended to favour quantity over quality. Sometimes we depend on structure in the attempt to express all the ideas bubbling in the murk of the mind. Regular readers numbered few, and much of what was posted now seems to me, for all its rawness and realness, a little juvenile.
But it's easy to be critical of one's former self, far easier than it is to appreciate the beauty of an evolving mind. And all minds evolve.
So many thanks, for reviving my own interest in abandoned fantasies, and for your kind words of encouragement. I think it is those words that are truly an inspiration.
Do you have a blog?
WS
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