Why I don't blog.
Going by what I make out from what I have already published on this blog, I don't think I am really bad at it. Then why don't I post more often? Let me use my ponderings on this question as an excuse to write.
In my opinion, a blog writer needs to be particularly crafty so as not to make too much of his private life available in technicolor to everyone on the net. He/she must take care not to let a lot of detail about their lives overflow into the blogs. That, I think is a pretty difficult thing to do if you intend to remain honest with what you write. I intend to do so, with the sad result that I find most of what I write not fit to publish. Well, I sometimes think I am extra-withdrawn, because I have problems with publishing stuff that most people would deem alright to. But then, thats the way I am, and call it my folly if you want to.
I consider my two earlier posts to be just the kind of sly writing that I just talked about. Both are poems, and were both born out of depression and confusion over completely private matters. But then, I succeeded in channelizing the emotions to get something which has a general appeal. One who reads these poems would relate to them, but would get no glimpse into what prompted me into writing these. For this reason, I consider these two poems to be some personal blogging achievements of sorts.
But then, there are other things people write about in blogs. What about views, opinions, thoughts, stories, reviews, even small details of their day to day lives. As for the last, I can state that I am not someone with an eye for detail unless the object under purview is of some particular interest to me. So, at night, I would not like to put down in my blog what I had for breakfast, what travails I faced in office, at what time I reached home, and what troubles I had parking the car, though I agree that many people have an uncanny ability to make such colorless detail very interesting.
As for blogging views and opinions, I call it "online thinking", and that is something I don't habitually indulge in. I have my own, very unstructured way of thinking. I think at the oddest of times, while eating, while walking, while working, while driving. I consider that to be a nice way of thinking, because that way, you don't force the ideas out of yourself, but they just flow out of your gut. Yes, your gut. I consider ideas born out of the gut to be far superior to those born out of the mind. Those are the REAL ideas.
Huh.. I have a nice way of fooling myself to keep a clear conscience. Hell, just blame my bad blogging record on my laziness!
In my opinion, a blog writer needs to be particularly crafty so as not to make too much of his private life available in technicolor to everyone on the net. He/she must take care not to let a lot of detail about their lives overflow into the blogs. That, I think is a pretty difficult thing to do if you intend to remain honest with what you write. I intend to do so, with the sad result that I find most of what I write not fit to publish. Well, I sometimes think I am extra-withdrawn, because I have problems with publishing stuff that most people would deem alright to. But then, thats the way I am, and call it my folly if you want to.
I consider my two earlier posts to be just the kind of sly writing that I just talked about. Both are poems, and were both born out of depression and confusion over completely private matters. But then, I succeeded in channelizing the emotions to get something which has a general appeal. One who reads these poems would relate to them, but would get no glimpse into what prompted me into writing these. For this reason, I consider these two poems to be some personal blogging achievements of sorts.
But then, there are other things people write about in blogs. What about views, opinions, thoughts, stories, reviews, even small details of their day to day lives. As for the last, I can state that I am not someone with an eye for detail unless the object under purview is of some particular interest to me. So, at night, I would not like to put down in my blog what I had for breakfast, what travails I faced in office, at what time I reached home, and what troubles I had parking the car, though I agree that many people have an uncanny ability to make such colorless detail very interesting.
As for blogging views and opinions, I call it "online thinking", and that is something I don't habitually indulge in. I have my own, very unstructured way of thinking. I think at the oddest of times, while eating, while walking, while working, while driving. I consider that to be a nice way of thinking, because that way, you don't force the ideas out of yourself, but they just flow out of your gut. Yes, your gut. I consider ideas born out of the gut to be far superior to those born out of the mind. Those are the REAL ideas.
Huh.. I have a nice way of fooling myself to keep a clear conscience. Hell, just blame my bad blogging record on my laziness!
posted by niraj at 11:55 PM
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