Dead Blog?

Blogimissimo de la Muerto (That's Spanish, Right?)

So, I've been thinking,

Considering. 

Pondering. 

(Sigh...)

Is this where my blog is headed?

No. I said BLOG. DEAD BLOG! Freakin' voice recognition software.

Where was I? Oh, yeah. Is it headed that way? Well, the answer is no. For one thing, any blog would look ridiculous laying around with its tongue hanging out and its junk dangling in the breeze. (Which reminds me, it's probably time to post another redhead...)

Look, the question is why I'd bother to keep up with this thing. I've been dicking around with G+, and I gotta be honest, it's some good stuff. With the unlimited posting, specific sharing with a particular tailorable audience and all that noise, it's practically a combined tumblr and blog, with substantial elements of Twitter. It's pretty seductive. But the fact is, it's just too fucking fast. Did you hear that? Too fast. It's too easy to react, to snark, to smuggify, to...chat, not write. Does that even make sense?

I suddenly feel a direct-line kinship with authors who could never get their feet under them in the digital age, the ones who used an old raggedy IBM Selectric, or Royal manual till they couldn't get parts anymore. And I more than ever "get" those who say they don't feel like they're writing if it doesn't involve a pen and paper.

Now, I'm not that much of a Luddite; I don't think it's the technology. It's the format. It just "feels" like the blog is a more thoughtful place. And, as a logical extension, just writing and holding it and polishing it until it's done is...what, "real" writing? "More real" writing? All this is headed the same direction as the "what is a writer" arguments we had in the old days. 

They always started with some version of If a writer is 'one who writes,' then this is the work of writers:

Of course, the reason that there's an argument is that there are those who would not disagree with that description and example as an accurate definition of writing, and those who don't think that simple statement is true but can't figure out what a good definition of being a "writer" might be.

An argument for another day - the point is that THIS feels more like my concept of writing than G+ does. So, I may be there more, I may be here a lot less. And when I'm writing "for real," I may not be anywhere you can find me. 

But, then, that's how writing works.

In Our Next Episode: More Deep Thought. And a redhead. Maybe two.