This is a blog about blogging.
So, after much hulabaloo (sp?) about which template to choose for my blog, I finally decided to use my orignal choice. So much for being original. I do have to thank Jacob, though, for putting up with my indecisiveness.
So now that I have a blog, and now that I have all of two followers (very important followers, I might add), people can read my writing. This is a big deal, for me anyway. We're talking about me, the senior undergraduate who completely screwed up a conference presentation because I just could not make myself read my term paper. I mean, this is the thing. When people read my writing, I feel naked. I feel like my writing defines so much about who I am. My writing, even if it's fiction, reveals personal secrets. And now, I have a blog. I am voluntarily publishing my thoughts on the Internet for all to read. Well, at least Jacob and Jordan, anyway... So, now I'm asking myself, "why blog?"
I need to blog because I need to overcome this (ir)rational fear. What I want more than anything in the world is to write, and not only that, but to write things that people read. I'm hoping that blogging will help me build courage (oh, no, now Jacob is coming ever so close to my computer, and I'm tempted to minimize the screen, but he's just going to see it anyway, oh, god. good. he left. now he's back. okay. I think he's really gone) to let people read my thoughts and even criticize my writing if they want. What I have to do is learn to do this for myself. I have to write for myself, because I want to, because I need to, because I have to. Because I love to.
4 comments:
I totally understand all these things, but all I know is that once you get started, if you love to write you'll just stop being afraid (except maybe that one second before you click the publish post button). Way to listen to Helene Cixous (I told you she was brilliant), you laughing, writing, Medusa-girl!
Now you just have to let go. Don't worry about being all grammatically correct or sounding intelligent. Blogging, at least in my opinion, is about letting your guard down. We have to be serious all day at work and school, and blogging is an opportunity to write without worrying.
(Even though I did copy and paste this into a Word document so I could spell-check it. Spell-check it? Spell check it? Spellcheck it? My point exactly.)
Interesting, when we were child we also painted pics and shick them together, it is a good work to stimulate creative,keep up work!
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I don't really know how you feel because I am far from being a writer. I am proud of you for blogging though. Pleasant blogging. Love, your grzlbear.
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