For years many people told me that I should write a blog, and I always answered that I couldn’t be blothered.
There was just so much flotsam and jetsam already online–so many many words written by so many, many people that no-one had the time or interest to read, that I felt it almost my duty not to contribute to the excess.
And how many of them were interesting?
Mine would be, of course, but the idea of getting buried in that heap …
So why now? (I feel I have to justify myself.)
Well, for one thing, people have finally stopped telling me to write a blog. So maybe I just will!
But also, I just found out that a blog can do great things for your SEO–the holy grail for anyone whose livelihood depends on being found on the net. And then you can put twitter next to your blog and they’ll make beautiful SEO music together, and you’ll be just like the cashier at the pricey organic grocery store in my yuppie overrun neighbourhood who intoned with great zeal to the person in front of me in line, “You can follow our sausage on Twitter!”
Anyway, the blog. Hopefully it will give prospective students still more info on what yours truly and her workshops are about; and for repeat students, more talk about books and writing to keep you inspired and reading and writing.
And for myself, a place to unload my ongoing thoughts on writing, literature, and whatever else is delighting or infuriating or baffling me at the moment.
Because that’s why most of us write, really.
To get it out of ourselves, and into someone else, via the screen, the page, whatever.