Just Write is Just Right

Ye Olde Quill and Ink

It's always a good idea to listen to experienced, professional advice but sometimes you are better off doing things your own way.

Before starting this blog I read several other blogs and web articles on the subject of creating good blogs.

"Stick to one subject for the blog.", they advised.

Ok, I seem to have a particular interest in reading and talking about politics and the economy. Done.

"Backup what you say with links to supporting articles." - more advice from the experts.

Ok, so I bookmarked every article I read. The list of bookmarks grew monstrous. I had a hard time remembering which bookmarked article related to whichever paragraph of what I was writing about. I tried organizing the bookmarks by date and topic, even tried to organize them in a database, but there was just too much overlap of information.

The result of following the expert advise was only a few blog entries were written, each one taking a lot of time and research to write, and the whole process becoming such a chore that I eventually stopped blogging.

At the time of this writing, my previous blog post is just 3 weeks shy of being a whole year ago.

During the past 12 months there were other things I wanted to blog about but they didn't fit into the "politics and economy" niche. Also the memories of the tedious hours, sometimes days, it took to write and refine a single blog post discouraged me.

My blog, like so many others that I've come across in my Internet travels, had been abandoned without any sort of closure. I remember in the beginning telling myself that I wouldn't let that happen, but that is exactly what happened anyway.

A couple days ago a fleeting thought became rooted in my mind... "To hell with'em, just write."

Then I began to ask myself, "Why not?"

Nobody is reading my blog anyway.

Well... other than the NSA computers downloading every character I've typed and complex algorithms processing the data to determine if I'm either the ultimate, mastermind, terrorist of the universe or just another nobody-crackpot, but even then no living person is reading my drivel.

So who cares whether or not I stay on track with a specific niche?

Who cares if I don't fact check and backup my opinions with links and data? They are my opinions and these opinions of this piss-pot-poor, cranky-old-fart aren't going to alter the course of anything.

I like chocolate ice-cream and, in my opinion, vanilla ice-cream tastes yucky!

Wait for it... wait for it...

Hmm...

The world seems to be continuing about it's business despite my opinion of vanilla ice-cream and despite my not having any hard facts or scientific data to back my opinion. (And I still like chocolate ice-cream and I'm still of the opinion that vanilla ice-cream tastes yucky.)

All the expert advice, suggestions, guidelines, techniques, etc. that I've read about blogging may come in handy someday but for now just writing something,... anything,.... is better than the 12 months of "nothing" I've written so far.

For now, "just write" is just right.



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