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 |   Blog Challenge And Other Tidbits |
| An opinion or two...or three or four... |
PROMPT July 12th When did you first start blogging? (anywhere, not necessarily on WDC) Why? What did you blog about? (subjects, topics, personal news, etc.) Has your blogging style changed since you began? Great prompt for today. And yesterday too. Remember we were asked to write about what life would be like if humans hadn't invented...fill in the blank...and yesterday I didn't even think of how we write today, and the fact that we call it blogging! I guess I have to say that before we all had a blog we actually had a diary. And diaries have been around forever. I grew up thinking that only women kept diaries. It's where school girls who kept their secret thoughts about their latest crush. Thoughts about their first kiss. Thoughts about their friends and teachers and parents. It was a way to reconcile the craziness of being a teenager. But men kept, and still keep diaries. Sure, they don't look like little pink books filled with fancy paper. Men keep notebooks. Spiral bound. Maybe even a hardback journal. Us humans have been writing stuff down for centuries. And I'm no different. Like I said once before, I was born with a pencil in one hand and a notebook in the other. I've been writing since I was a child. Silly things, really. Or maybe not. A poem here and there. A little note to my mom or dad. A lengthy chronicle of some injustice. Bits and pieces of new stories. All kept secretly and lovingly in storage boxes. Yep, that's true. Most everything I've ever written on paper is kept in a box. Neatly titled or neatly labeled. Will I ever go back and read all that stuff? Probably not. Unless I feel like a trip down memory lane. And to be honest I do that sometimes. I sift through old stories and poems and let the memories flood me. Some of those old writings are pretty good. Some are complete trash. When I came to WDC back in 2008 I was intrigued by this thing called "blog". It took me quite a while to set it up because I was so intimidated by the concept. In fact, I used to write my posts on pieces of paper and then transcribe them into my blog. Talk about work! Eventually I got used to just typing my thoughts. And then I got used to organizing those thoughts. And then I realized I could run in any possible direction with my blog. After all, it's MY blog. I am always thrilled when people read my blog. And I love the comments I receive. I've gotten great suggestions from everyone, and I take those suggestions seriously. Do I still keep a diary? No. I've outgrown that. Do I still keep a journal? Yes. And that's because I still feel the most creative when I'm writing on paper with ink. Will I continue to blog? Yes. I will continue to blog because in today's world that's what we do. We blog. And I'm no different. |
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