“A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”
I don’t write as much now as I did before. I would like to blame it on the fact that I don’t have a job where I should be writing regularly. When you’re a reporter, a writer or a columnist, it is your job to write. You have to produce a report, a write-up or a written opinion everyday. Some may call it forced inspiration, but when you stay in the media circle, you also have the required materials to be inspired to write.
Admittedly, I don’t read as much news now as I did before too. We watch the morning and sometimes the primetime news. But when I was working as a reporter, news was almost coming out of my ears and nose (ok, that’s not a pretty sight). I only read the news on the internet. Many times I want to write but I don’t get to finish it. I have come to the conclusion that one is more motivated to write when he/she has a staple audience. But I guess I should be more motivated than that. I shouldn’t blame my not-writing to not-having-a-job. It’s unacceptable!
I started a blog with the thought of continuing with the writing process. Because only with continued writing can one become a better writer — every writer knows that. But it seems that I have a problem continuing the writing process myself — I wake up wanting to write, or sometimes I lay at night thinking about a subject to write about, but when I start to do so (the morning after), I just forget what I want to write about. Just like right now. There are a lot of things on my mind — things that I want to finish. It is a fact that when you work at daytime, you hear many sounds, your to-do list is in front of you, and you can’t just concentrate! Like right now, in between that last sentence, I was on the phone asking about vacancies!
Even this article does not make sense to me. I wanted to write about the relationship between blogging, writing or blogwriting. Is blogwriting the politically-correct word? Are bloggers, writers? In my own perspective, writers may keep blogs and I’m sure they will keep good ones. But not all bloggers are writers. But blogging can lead to really good writing. Blogwriting can lead to really good articles. Just like keeping a diary. I did that for years and I guess that honed my writing skills. (Please don’t disagree.)
That’s the reason why I wanted to keep a blog. And to better my writing in Dutch, I was also thinking of keeping a Dutch diary. I’m sure that after many years, it will give me a lot of laughs regarding grammatical errors. I had that too when I reread my old highschool diary after many years. I cringe at the sight of my grammatical errors, but I laughed. #
