Of Writ to Writ

When I initially started the blog, I thought it was going to be my reflections and ideas. Disabling comments felt natural from that perspective, as well as a few other concepts that I implemented into the first posts. As I go along, however, I realize that it's not in any way a good thing to be doing.

First of all, the entire goal of the blog for me was to learn. To develop as a writer and perhaps produce a few pieces that I can look back upon and be proud of. In that sense, I felt I required more self-reflection upon both my own performance, and the style of writing that I was using. I'm sure, that if one reads previous posts, this idea is clearly noted and nearly all of them are based on a pretext of my own writing, with a higher grade of general reflection on top. This was the style and concept I intended and it's worked for me thus far.

However, I realize that the texts I'm writing for the blog might have a rather slim potential audience - made even more slim if it's naught but a static webpage. Some casual discussion, once again on the AbsoluteWrite forums, introduced that sentiment and as I think about it, it makes more and more sense. I also viewed a quick article from About.com's section on blogging, which seemed to concur with the idea.

Obviously, I have a long way to go. No only as to how I write and how I find and take feedback and criticism, but also how I consider this blog as a tool. I think I've at least had a few valuable ideas that I started up with, but it's dreadfully obvious I need a few more of those.

As such, my new intention is to try and recieve more ideas, more feedback, and more criticism from everywhere I go. I thought at first learning on my own would be the most interesting experience, but I realize that allowing myself to heed the advice of others won't make me less original and independent. Instead, I find that patching every piece of wisdom and advice together, in conjunction with my own experience and idealism, creates a very unique and well-rounded style of one's own.

Either way, I've edited in a few question marks into previous posts, questions that really ought to be asked in the first place but does not appear so obvious if you're but the reader. Like the submorals and undertexts that featured in some of my writing, there's a lot under the lines of the average blog post.

Again, I excuse some of my arrogance. I feel it's nagging me harder than ever. I'll try desperately to repel it.

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