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Should I start a blog?
12 years ago
I have a major excuse for a lot of my procrastination. Whenever I'm reading news articles or blogs or anything of the sort about race and gender politics, animal rights, freedom of speech/expression or anything similar, I tend to try and convince myself that I am "expanding my mind", and that there is something intrinsically valuable about improving your understanding of the world.
Which is all well and good, except for one problem: If you don't do anything with this understanding, it's pretty much wasted. I sit down every now and again and just try to solve problems in my head, and put together convincing arguments against various ills of the world. And then when I've got one, I go watch Adventure Time for a while and then spend 3 hours writing an email about a job.
So! My question is this: If I somehow managed to channel my energy into writing blogs that were social and political and all that jazz, would anyone actually be interested?
And please don't assume this is some kind of whiney cry for attention or approval. If you wouldn't be interested, say so. I can take it. I don't regularly follow any blogs myself, so I completely understand. I'd just like to know if there's any point in me starting one.
Basically, I've been told that I'm good at explaining certain concepts and ideas. Does that sound about right, or would I just be cutting into my Adventure Time... time.
Which is all well and good, except for one problem: If you don't do anything with this understanding, it's pretty much wasted. I sit down every now and again and just try to solve problems in my head, and put together convincing arguments against various ills of the world. And then when I've got one, I go watch Adventure Time for a while and then spend 3 hours writing an email about a job.
So! My question is this: If I somehow managed to channel my energy into writing blogs that were social and political and all that jazz, would anyone actually be interested?
And please don't assume this is some kind of whiney cry for attention or approval. If you wouldn't be interested, say so. I can take it. I don't regularly follow any blogs myself, so I completely understand. I'd just like to know if there's any point in me starting one.
Basically, I've been told that I'm good at explaining certain concepts and ideas. Does that sound about right, or would I just be cutting into my Adventure Time... time.
Well, not now, but...
No... wait for it...
Ok now.
You could always start writing on FA and see if people are into that sort of thing.. or possibly find an appropriate forum you could post threads in if you're looking for more of a discussion rather than just airing out ideas out loud.
Writing is a good way to get thoughts organized though, so it might be worth doing it anyway.
Cheers.
Don't be disheartened if you don't get a big response, it can be very interesting to look back over your work a year or two down the line and see how your thinking might have shifted in the mean time - my old blog is a.. well.. bit of a curious read, as I'd just started university was turning into something of a hippy art student at the time (god, what was I on... >.< ).
But like I said, if you post to a forum you are probably more likely to get a discussion started, and it would be in a more conversational style as opposed to writing short essays..