Of late, I happen to have a lot of time on my hands.... People want to know why the avid reader, the English teacher's pet who can reel off those applaudable one-liners, doesn't blog. In my defense, it is not laziness as widely perceived..It is merely a lack of good ideas to blog on or about...Not that I lead an uneventful life, though it is way less exciting enough to hold a third person's interest than it was a few months back.What can I blog about?
I could talk about all my deepest passions(books, music, chennai....) in great detail.But, the first few people to read this blog have already heard all about that from me. So, its not going to interest them. I'd rather not say anything here than repeat myself.
I could write about all the funny things that happened back in college and school when I get nostalgic.This would again interest only those who witnessed the happenings or were part of it... I am not going to impress or draw new readers...
When I started this blog, I expected to rave and rant about my job and my boss. I never got to do it then, and have no need or desire to do it now. So, thats out...
Finally, when I do think of something to blog about, I get so excited about it that, words fly around in my head, thoughts overflow and jump from topic to topic, and before I can switch my laptop on and the lazy darling is ready to get to work, I have forgotten what I wanted to focus on...
And when I do finally somehow gain focus and write something down, the ruthless critic in me trashes the text... She tears the paras and sentences and words apart and has a cruel comment on almost every letter, every space and every punctuation I put in there...And the meek writer in me decides this wasn't worth writing, leave alone publishing....
The reader always reigns over the writer...
When I started writing this blog, I went through the same old dilemna... But this time... What the heck!!! I am going to publish it... And here is my blog... Just for the "Heck of it!"
5 comments:
hehe... good one Jo. This ones nice... This is how one shud start blogging and come out of the shell (although im not the right person to lecture on it ).. but hey what the heck.. :P
@ Jo: Amazing stuff. Your language is still intact contrary to your opinion that you lost touch with it after school :) Hope to see you more on blogger :)
@ Denzil: What the heck? You are no one to talk about "coming out of the shell and blogging"!
How could life be less exciting than it was few months back? What does your hubby have to say to that?
A wedding round the corner was what made it exciting in the first place...
I wanted to comment something sensible or funny here. But I forgot what I wanted to say... so just adding this comment for the heck of it ;)
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