A Fresh Start

Why do you want to hear me speak? What value is there in my words? Why is it, when I am just found minding my own business, I am expected to speak of it? Do people just do this naturally?

Fine, my curious friend–I will speak, but only for you.

Blogging is something I have been doing for some time now–nothing incredibly serious, just writing personal thoughts, or things I found on the Internet, or even memories of my life. I am not pleased with any of this. My blog, if it did exist, would be where I stand on what. I look at my previous writings now and I can’t help but think, How in the world could I have written this? It’s random, it’s spontaneous, without purpose. It’s done as if I wanted to let others only know about it, a short one-liner and…nothing. Why would someone bother to read that?

So, let’s fix our writing style by examining a sample post. It seems pretty straightforward–I had a Pownce account, I wanted people to know about it by linking to it on my blog. But couldn’t I have expanded on this with what I think of it, how useful it is (or isn’t), or how it measures up to other social networking websites? I should have. Unless you’re a stalker and secretly track which websites I browse, my curious reader, why would you be even remotely interested whether I’m on Pownce or not? Exactly!

There’s so much I want to write about, my curious reader, but I have so many reasons not to…We’ll save that for another blog post, but only if I choose my words carefully. After all, if my words are so valuable to you, we wouldn’t want them to be wasted, now would we?

~ by Michael on December 19, 2007.