Blogging hasn’t come naturally to me. This website may be
hosted by Blogger, but it’s first and foremost a static website, rather than a
chatty blog. My posts tend to be brief news items and updates, not opinion
pieces or diary entries. Until 9th June 2011 I had never
actually written a real blog post.
My first post, written for a writers’ online colony that I
belong to, actually focussed on my blogging virginity and the losing of it. It
was fun. I enjoyed writing it, but it didn’t exactly unleash a torrential flow
of pent-up blogs.
It was a month until I managed another post. In fact,
spurred on by an imminent trip to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival to read
some of my poetry, I managed two posts in July and one in August. Then my usual
blogging lethargy returned and I didn’t write another post until December.
Almost a year later and by the beginning of October 2012, I
had written the grand total of just six blog posts. That’s less than one piece
every two months. I clearly wasn’t at risk of writer’s cramp, or its modern
equivalent, RSI, when it came to blogging. So what was the problem?
Obviously, it’s not that I don’t like writing. I’m a poet
and author; it’s what I do. I love writing, but blogging somehow worried me. It
seemed to require an opinion, something factual to comment on and I didn’t
think I had that much to say that would interest readers in the Blogverse.
Plus, with so many blogs already out there, why write even more?
I was happy writing book reviews for various literary and
genre magazines. There were my poems, poetry books and short stories and a
brand new novel. I wasn’t exactly short of things to write and publish.
Blogging was a worry I didn’t need.
It was the novel that finally propelled me into the world of
blogging: the novel and its publisher, Vagabondage Press. Thanks guys…
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