I just love my blog. I am a writing addict, really. In prior times, before I had this fabulous content delivery system known as “Blogger” available to me, I would write VOLUMINOUS emails to everyone that would answer. Not to mention the ones that didn’t.<\/p>\n
The joy of writing them was enough.<\/p>\n
Even before email, long ago in the 80s, I used to write letters to people. I had several pen pals I wrote to every week. It felt wrong to me if I didn’t write at least 4 pages. To many, I wrote upwards of 20 pages. Honestly, I’m not sure what I had to say. I didn’t really have any exciting life as a homeschooled teenager in the remote suburbs of Alaska. But I wrote anyway.<\/p>\n
But now we have the internet! There is so much good stuff to read. People generate content every day, scads of it. I don’t know how many hundreds of people have their own blogs, and not all of it is self-referential psychotherapy. Not all.<\/p>\n
There are all those clever new guys that made stabs at politicians and public figures. And Blogcritics, reviewing music and movies.<\/p>\n
A lot of those folks seem to be quick quippers, dashing off little paragraphs.<\/p>\n
I tend towards multiple pages. It makes me feel like looking sideways in the mirror.<\/p>\n
“Does my blog look fat?”<\/p>\n
I found this today, from Openletters.net<\/a><\/p>\n The fact is, reading on the web – or at least reading anything longer than a few hundred words – just isn’t that pleasant an activity. And yet the Internet seems like a tremendous opportunity to deliver great writing to a far-flung readership. This is precisely the paradox that has burned up hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital over the last few years. And still the question remains: how can this cool tool be used to distribute information with a little depth, with a little soul?<\/p>\n Preach it! My tolerance for reading more than a few hundred words on the net might not be shared by everyone. But I hope that I make it worthwhile, the PageDown button not too tiresome, and my chubby blog makes itself worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just love my blog. I am a writing addict, really. In prior times, before I had this fabulous content delivery system known as “Blogger” available to me, I would write VOLUMINOUS emails to everyone that would answer. Not to … Continue reading
\nThat is some of what I am trying to do for you, my readers, known and unknown. A little depth and a little soul.<\/p>\n