4/27/2006
blogging and writing
There’s been a lot going around lately about how being a blogger doesn’t necessarily make you a better writer. The most recent is from Wired, and of course, the recent Slate article on the subject, in which the author explains that blogging was hampering her as a writer rather than helping.
Personally, I don’t blog to become a writer. I blog because I like to express myself through written communication. I don’t like to express myself through verbal communication so much, which is why you’ll never see a Data Obsessed podcast.
I started a blog originally in the spring of 2002, shortly before I graduated from college. It coincidentally coincided somewhat with me deciding to use creative writing as something for fun as well as for off-the-wall final projects in my humanities classes. My aliases have morphed over the years, as has the “purpose” behind my blogging - originally it was a tool to keep up with friends, now I use it for more professional musings.
I’ve never really thought about whether blogging has improved my more creative writing, or my professional writing, because the thought hasn’t occurred to me. The stories I occasionally write, the reports I create for work, and my blog posts represent three different types of things for me. The latter two have more in common than the first, because I consider both to be communication first and writing second, but blogging is by its very nature a much more casual form than a KM report I might turn into the powers that be.
Still, I suppose in a one way blogging has made me a better writer. It’s gotten me into the habit of writing on a fairly frequent basis.
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