Oh internet. How is it that you simultaneously manage to embody in my psyche two paradoxical images: a world of information through which everyone can see everything and all beings are connected, and a soulless black-hole, absorbing all language and ideas and feeding it to no one?
The number of times I've scanned stranger's blogs, only to see the words "Is anybody out there?", "Is anybody even reading this?", "Should I even bother blogging when I'm blogging to no one?" - or words to that effect, makes me sad. To their melancholy questions I reply, yes. Yes you should keep on keeping on. You should keep on writing. Because it is just as important to practice writing as it is to have people read it. The people who's blogs are 'popular' in my experience, are the ones which belong to people who have, in their own way, become masters of language. Their words come alive on the screen. They make us laugh, cry, and think. Great writers (yes, great writers do exist on the world-wide-web. Not just in books with aged covers and dust-coatings three inches thick) always manage to entice the reader into thinking - whether they realise it or not.
Writing frequently helps you develop a style, a turn of phrase, an ease, and a new-found confidence. The bloggers I truly admire are the ones who can churn out thought-provoking entertainment in under ten minutes. But I'm pretty sure most of them haven't been able to do it since birth. Like all things, writing that captures a people's attention (and yes, the internet in this reference is indeed classed as 'a people') requires practice and discipline.
So come on people! Don't complain about your lack of views! Just keep on keeping on and make people want to read your words.
If you hadn't guessed by now, this is my way of telling myself that I need to write more.
