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 |  Daily scribbles on writing and living. How to get rid of cobwebs in my brain. CLOSED. |
It’s Saturday evening. Weekend! Yay.  At the background a movie with Bruce Willis, Hostage (2005) but it can’t grab my attention. I want to write, collect my thoughts, breath some life into my words. No particular subject, no real hot item in my mind but I want to vent anyway. Can you express yourself without substance; can you create without a real set goal? I think not, but I want to try anyway. Perhaps just typing away will open a corner in my mind that flows. Perhaps by just tapping into some kind of stream of consciousness things will shift and I will be able to express myself. Who knows, best to just keep playing with words. What else is there? It’s been awhile since I did some personal blogging that was not started by prompts from 30-Day Blogging Challenge, Blog City or Blogging Circle of Friends. Tonight, I just want to write about nothing special or everything in particular. Personally, I still find the concept of blogging a difficult one. I mean, who will read this, except me? Who will be interested in what I have to write anyway? I know there are some writers and maybe some guests at the site who occasionally read my entries, apart from my blogging buddies at the different forums. There must be because to my astonishment I saw that this blog has been viewed almost 1400 times. Since the start in June last year. I think that is awesome! So, people do read this blog sometimes, I like that very much.  Readers are essential in the writing process. In a way, readers are more important than writers. Of course, the chicken and the egg, what came first, but my postmodernist heart and mind really believe that the things we write down as writers only exist because there are readers, including the writer herself. When something is written it only starts living because there are readers. When something is done, finished, the write is out of my hands as its writer. It no longer belongs to me. It is part of the world of the reader. The other person defines and owns what is created, in a way. I no longer have much to do with it. My child has grown up and walks into the big, wide world where it is taken care of by others. It’s totally out of my hands what will happen next. Will it be something memorable or just a sigh in the wind? The reader will know. The writer is already busy with the next write. Something like that.  That’s why I love this site so much. I can create in knowing that sometimes somewhere another writer is reading what I have created. There is this possibility. Of course, I am an aspiring writer, I want to be published. But since I participate on this site that’s not my main goal any longer. In a way, I already publish since what I write is directly available to others. Long live the Internet, long live Writing.com. I really love it here. I think one of the main reasons this writing community is so awesome is because it is a safe environment. It feels warm and comfortable, a nice bubble with peers looking over your shoulder and commenting on what you write. It can only make me a better writer!  So, this is in a nutshell what I have to say this Saturday evening. The movie is already finished. But Bruce Willis could not capture my attention today. Although I like his action movies a lot. Someday I will try writing action/adventure stories. For me, it’s a really difficult genre I know nothing about. Till now, I have had trouble writing action scenes; dialogues are not my strongest point either. Perhaps in the future, someday. I am only an absolute beginner. Although I now have more than ten months writing experience on WdC behind my belt. Writing in English is the best thing I ever did when I started on this site.   |
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