Friday, 26 August 2011

• I fail to write ...... regularly

  I haven’t been consistent in writing although I always say that writing is one of my passions. If it is my passion, I should feel addicted to write. Writing should be one of my routines like eating or reading. Still, I find excuses like “I don’t know where to start”   ... or  “I have too many things on my mind to write them down.”

  I consider  “internet connection” as another excuse. Instead of writing down in a word document, I prefer composing and posting it on my blog right away. When I lose everything when submitting the post, I’m disappointed and that drains my enthusiasm to re-write again – I never leave any copy of my blogpost in a separate document like what I’m doing now for the first time.

  Oh. Not only that. The internet also has another effect on me. Since I always want to write only on my blog, I turned on the computer to go to my own website. But the only two websites I end up loading on web browser most of the time are  ‘mail.google.com’ and  yea you are right ... ‘www.facebook.com’  after which I tend to completely forget about my initial intention to write a blogpost. =D  I get drowned in the endless stream of Facebook newsfeed!

  Another excuse is probably my inferiority – when I’ve read  a good writing of others, I thought maybe I should read more to be able to write well, maybe I have not read enough to reproduce anything that is worth reading for others. But keeping a routine journal may not need that excuse if I just intend to polish up my writing skills or keep a routine of writing. Sometimes I thought to myself “maybe my writings are not competent enough – they probably won’t draw any attention from the readers.”  Sometimes I compose, delete and re-compose but end up deleting everything.

  Then again, I thought in which language I should be writing when I write a blogpost – in English ? or in my native language?
  

   I did not know what target readers I want to aim at  before I realized that the first reader , no matter what, I should write for is only myself.

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