Saturday, October 04, 2008
Trainblogging
Got a few minutes to myself here while I ride the rails.
As ridiculous as this may sound (especially when it's coming from a hastily-typed note I crafted on the train) I'm slowly becoming more excited about writing thanks to the blog. I know most of my posts are extremely self-centered and of little interest to the rest of the Internet, as my traffic and feedback have slowed to a crawl, but the more words I manage to shovel onto this page the better I feel about, well, everything.
I grew up really resenting the pressure to write in school. Book reports, essays, lengthy papers for history class, even straight-forward creative writing drove me nuts. I locked myself into an insane cycle of anger and frustration: I hated writing because it was hard and it was hard because I hated doing it. My troubled relationship with the written word is the number one reason I'll never make it to graduate school, even though I recognize the enormous benefits it would bestow on someone like me, a man with precious-few job skills and a fondness for studying Japanese.
Yet after I played the extraordinary BioShock demo last night, once my heart finally lept back into my chest, my first instinct was to try and write about the experience. Regardless of my dwindling readership or platform of choice (the web being notoriously cluttered with enthusiasts gushing about their favorite niche-entertainment), the notion that someone with my history would feel motivated to write out of sheer excitement...it's an incredible feeling.
I've already arrived at the station so I must put the phone down now, but more than anything I want this feeling to last. Wish me luck.
As ridiculous as this may sound (especially when it's coming from a hastily-typed note I crafted on the train) I'm slowly becoming more excited about writing thanks to the blog. I know most of my posts are extremely self-centered and of little interest to the rest of the Internet, as my traffic and feedback have slowed to a crawl, but the more words I manage to shovel onto this page the better I feel about, well, everything.
I grew up really resenting the pressure to write in school. Book reports, essays, lengthy papers for history class, even straight-forward creative writing drove me nuts. I locked myself into an insane cycle of anger and frustration: I hated writing because it was hard and it was hard because I hated doing it. My troubled relationship with the written word is the number one reason I'll never make it to graduate school, even though I recognize the enormous benefits it would bestow on someone like me, a man with precious-few job skills and a fondness for studying Japanese.
Yet after I played the extraordinary BioShock demo last night, once my heart finally lept back into my chest, my first instinct was to try and write about the experience. Regardless of my dwindling readership or platform of choice (the web being notoriously cluttered with enthusiasts gushing about their favorite niche-entertainment), the notion that someone with my history would feel motivated to write out of sheer excitement...it's an incredible feeling.
I've already arrived at the station so I must put the phone down now, but more than anything I want this feeling to last. Wish me luck.
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O.K., I know it is a totally geeky thing to say, but here it is: The very fact that you bother to punctuate and capitalize on your cell phone, plus the fact that your blog is organized in an intelligent fashion, shows that you have writing talent. It doesn't mean you have to go to grad school. Most writers never do. Take the ball and run--write, write, write!
# posted by 
: 06 October, 2008 09:47
: 06 October, 2008 09:47
I don't always "play by the rules" when I send messages to friends, but when it comes to blog, phone or no phone, it's got to be in English.
i cant write long msgs this way no matter how fast it is OMG I hope my next phone has a keyboard
Motivation is still a serious problem for me though. When I'm excited about writing I can get a lot done, but I'm slowly collecting projects that I started with enthusiasm and then stopped halfway through out of apathy.
コメントがあります？ Type something, please. It's less work for me.i cant write long msgs this way no matter how fast it is OMG I hope my next phone has a keyboard
Motivation is still a serious problem for me though. When I'm excited about writing I can get a lot done, but I'm slowly collecting projects that I started with enthusiasm and then stopped halfway through out of apathy.
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