The process of blogging: synonym of trying to march with concrete filled shoes...

Blogging is something that does not come naturally to me, is it something that needs to be practiced, like riding a bicycle? (...which on the record I can’t do too well either.)

Before this blog I used myspace and live journal to post thoughts, though they were hardly what you would call substantial or insightful. These posts consisted mainly of pictures and lacked any sort of authorial voice. I can tell you now that this particular blogging exercise has sparked an epiphany as to why that is: 1) I’m primarily a visual person, I like blogs filled with images for my own aesthetic pleasure (oh yes, pleasure indeed), 2) I find my authorial voice endlessly pretentious and irritating.

In week 2’s lecture Michael mentioned the importance of the authorial voice; it should be engaging and humorous. It should not drive people raging in the other direction, or rather in your direction hurling bricks and rotten tomatoes. I have the self absorbed paranoia that my words could provoke that reaction. In truth the worst my meaningless words, and endless strings of trying-to-be-clever-or-intellectual-but-end-up-looking-like-an-outright-knob sentences could do is provoke someone to roll their eyes and click the close button. The latter reaction is actually worse than the public uproar. If you did actually offend the world enough to put a bounty on your head, you have succeeded in impacting the world. This is the importance of the authorial voice: whether it’s quirky, charming or utterly offensive it will determine the success of your blog. People don’t want to read a blog that they don’t gain anything from.

I hope, my dear readers, that you will gain something, anything from my blog that prompts you to continue reading.

What I love about the internet, and furthermore blogging, is the anonymous nature of it all. Also the fact that blogging is an expression of thought through writing, not speech...which is yet another downfall of mine.

Scanning back over what I have just written, I have totally lost the plot. What was I trying to say? I don’t actually remember, and whatever I have written is obviously too far removed from the original point to actually be retrieved. Fail-sauce.

-Insert astute observation and witty conclusion here.-