When I started this blog I had two goals:
- Make regular (ideally daily posts)
- Write quality stuff that people would want to read even if they don't skate, but try to focus on skating.
I realise now that the two points are nearly contradictory, I am not sufficiently focused on inline skating that I can write interesting stuff right through winter and I don't do ice. Even if I did do ice, or it was summer, I suspect it is impossible to write stuff every day that people will find interesting.
So what to do? Do I give up on the notion that Skater Dreams will focus on skating or do I stay true to the name and sacrifice a major goal of mine. Given my preference for writing and my love of the written word I think I would sooner eat stones then write badly intentionally. I am not saying my writing is always good, or that it is even ever good. Rather I am saying, if I can write well, I'll be damned if I am going to write badly just to stay true to some arbitrary name.
The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. - Junius
So the one piece of news I would like to report on today: a friend of mine, my buddy in Rochester specifically, has asked me to help him start a regular pod cast. Ironically I find myself in the same position with the spoken word as I am with the written word. What to write?
It shall be my intention in the days to follow to occasionally write about skating, if there is something worthy or print, but mostly I plan to make this blog what a blog ought to be, an exploration of self in a public domain. I shall lay bare my inards to anyone who dares to read in the hope that by studying my own entrails I will be not only a better writer but perhaps find topics worthy of the vox populi. Vox populi, vox dei.
1 comment:
Maybe you should not write for other people. Diaries, journals, blogs...etc. whatever you call them should be about YOU first. Whether someone else can relate to them is irrelevant.
I read blogs because I like to celebrate my friends successes and support them in their failures. That is what life is all about.
This is YOUR blog, I want to read about YOU, not the state of the world or the ins and outs of politics.(unless you are writing about how they affect you)
Newspapers and doom and gloom stuff is what you read if you want to be thought provoked. Blogs and journals are what you read to get a laugh, enjoy your friends and to get away from it all.
Cor
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