I Don't Read Blogs

There is certainly something egotistical about my having a blog, I do not read blogs myself.

I try to spend as little time on my computer as possible, not because I think its unnatural, or removes from the life experience, or that it will damage my eyes but just because I waste a lot of time on it.

Doing anything on a computer takes a vastly longer time by effort than doing something with the abscenes of a computer.

I cannot read a book I even enjoy without checking my phone every few pages. Trying to read essays on a computer, where there are endless oppotunities to get distracted, is a slow chore.

If I am on my computer and do not have work to do I have cetain websites I will go to, or scan my carefully organised Facebook newsfeed for articles that interest me.

Blogs are hard to find, untrustworthy of quality and often irregularly maintained. Sometimes I might look up some obscure thing I am interested in and the only relevant post I can find is from a blog.

That is the use of blogging (beyond showcasing for employers) I think, you keep talking an unknown and probably non-existent audience and occassionally someone will be interested in something you have talked about.

They probably will not spend much time keeping up with your blog afterwards but for them their interest has been fed, and for you, your writing has been done and someone has read it.

There are enough people in the world that someone is bound to be interested in something you want to write about...

I finished reading Alice In Wonderland, the Penguin Classics copy contained both Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass as well as the shorter Alice's Adventures Under Ground in it.

This four chapter story was an earlier text came between the famous story of the story being dreamt up on the river Isis and the publishing of Adventures.

It is interesting to see how this short story was fleshed out into the final text and how Carroll improved and perfected his bouncing, joy-filled rhythm.

Under Ground reads at a slower pace, as if he has written it all down quite face without much editing, compared with Adventures it shows the deliberate, considered, but much faster pace clearer.

You also get to see how things like place names and personal references where changed to accommodate the universal audience of Adventures.

On the blog today I did everything I said I would yesterday, which is pleasing. I was not sure what to put on the front page so have left it with one visual poem for now.

In the poetry section I made different tabs. I was not sure what to call the section of what I guess is 'normal' poetry so gave up with 'Unsure' for now.

It is also hard to know how much to show, whether a certain number of examples, all my favourite stuff or a wide variety of styles would be best.

I think if I add any more I will add a prose poetry section as most of my prose would fit better in there than a more general fiction header.

Perhaps I shall not do this immediately saving some stuff for the future.

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