1 post tagged “writing process”

I have a friend from college who keeps asking me where my blog is. I think that he thinks since I like to write and have lots of opinions, I should have a blog -- feminist, liberal-leaning, and rant-filled at that!

I do love to write and I do have lots of opinions, but I'm conflicted by the medium of blogging because of its egoism and isolation from the creative process.

Wait, whaaa...? See? Don't you wish I DIDN'T have a blog?

Who wants to read about my philosophy of blogging?

That was my inner voice that I'm trying to ignore at work up there, and that will surely prove to be a big hurdle in this blogging endeavor.

Anyway, a blog is so different because it fits nowhere in my relationship with writing and the writing process. When I was a kid and started having to write essays for school, my favorite part was reading aloud my first draft to my parents and having them give me suggestions. In college, I would read aloud assignments or weekly columns to my roommates before submitting them. At my job, none of my work gets published without being read by at least one set of careful eyes. I've always been one of the few geeks who totally loves peer editing.

I guess it just feels weird to click "publish" without having my work ripped to shreds, or at the very least, having been read aloud to my mom while she's dozing on the couch.

Now I will systematically repost all my lame blogs from my MySpace account.