Thursday, September 10, 2009

To scream to the world that I am silent

I think Aiken's (my English teacher, the one who prompted me and my class to start blogs like this one) idea of writing a letter to the Internet to better writing is an engaging one. However, what do you tell the world on a daily bases? To some people the answer is obvious. You can tell people about your life, favorite things, or your thoughts. Write about what you know, so they say. I think in blogging it might lean more toward "write about what you know...that people want to hear about". In that way it is more like a natural form of journalism. You won't see the news reporting a story about someone going to work on Wednesday, people just don't care about the common. So we can take the question further: "What do I know that can be journalised?". There are only two answers to this question: everything, and nothing. I could blog about my day-to-day experiences and hope that somewhere in the barrel of those experiences you will take interest in something, or I could blog about only the things I expect will find engaging. The second has a major problem. It limits my audience to only the people that find the same things engaging as I.

My final answer came to me very definitively. Limit away! That's right audience, go on and shrink. Shrink and I'll just write more engaging posts until I weed out all you readers that don't enjoy being engaged. In the end, I don't have anything to write for you anyway (unless I plagiarize, and that's against the rules).

(English specific note: I'm aware jounalised isn't a word. In my opinion 'ised' should be added to any word to make it one of the coolest verbs ever. So if anyone reading this makes the rules on the English language, please take this into consideration.)

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