“Blogger” or “Blagger”? Even before I begin a first blog I am shot through with doubts and ambivalent feelings about the blogging business. For a kick off, will any one be at all interested? As someone who has always sought privacy I have tended to shrink away from this sort of exposure. Will my thoughts, ideas, opinions be worth reading anyway? Having occasionally cyber-stalked other “real” writers’ blogs, I have usually come away with a sense of derision….who the hell does he/she think they are to offer such pat opinions on politics, football, poetry
or whatever? Perhaps the eloquence of a Stephen Fry or Will Self might justify blogging to the world, or maybe someone who has a dynamic lifestyle… but it’s not really for little old me. So this might well turn out to be the briefest, unbloke-iest blogging effort ever. I guess that I will mainly use this page to advertise literary events, poetry readings etc, that I am involved with or interested in. Well, let’s see…
“Blogger” or “Blagger”? Even before I begin a first blog I am shot through with doubts and ambivalent feelings about the blogging business. For a kick off, will any one be at all interested? As someone who has always sought privacy I have tended to shrink away from this sort of exposure. Will my thoughts, ideas, opinions be worth reading anyway? Having occasionally cyber-stalked other “real” writers’ blogs, I have usually come away with a sense of derision….who the hell does he/she think they are to offer such pat opinions on politics, football, poetry
or whatever? Perhaps the eloquence of a Stephen Fry or Will Self might justify blogging to the world, or maybe someone who has a dynamic lifestyle… but it’s not really for little old me. So this might well turn out to be the briefest, unbloke-iest blogging effort ever. I guess that I will mainly use this page to advertise literary events, poetry readings etc, that I am involved with or interested in. Well, let’s see…