The Ten Minute Blog Post- Writers Write
I don’t write solely because I want to, but because I have to. It is an involuntary exercise like breathing to me except
It is an involuntary exercise like breathing to me and though I won’t physically die if I don’t do it I will see my heart and soul shrink a size or two.
For a long time I forgot about the importance of writing but twelve years ago I started blogging and in some ways I was reborn.
If that sounds like hyperbole to you I am guessing you are not a writer and that’s ok. Or maybe you are a writer and it still sounds like hyperbole, that is ok too,
The world would be dull if we were all the same.
A Blogging Experiment
The majority of my blogging experience has been with Blogger or Wordpress. I didn’t do anything with Medium with any effort until a few months ago.
But I experiment all the time to see if there are ways to improve my storytelling and marketing.
If you read this post on my WP blog the links below would have pictures tied into them and wouldn’t be just text.
Today we’ll find out if there is any significant difference between how those posts perform there and here.
- The Birthday Party Dilemma
- The Shackled Writer
- The Cure For A Bad Day
- The Great Dad Blogger War Of ’06
- The People In Your Life
- It Happened One Yom Kippur
Time Is Almost Up
My ten minutes is almost up so I have to decide if I should talk about the value of comments, whether Twitter is still a valuable platform or children and social media.
Chances are I will focus on the children and social media angle in a post later today. Got a situation here that is unfolding that reminds me about how happy I am that this sort of cyber world didn’t exist when I was a kid.
It is not easy helping my children navigate it either and sometimes I find it disheartening to see how cruelty can be extended throughout the night and day.
But there have been positives that are tied into it all too, but we’ll save that talk for later.
For now I will leave you with this thought which applies to writing as well as to photography.
Originally published at www.thejackb.com on April 21, 2016.
