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Why would you blog?

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  • #32
    lmtduffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭lmtduffy


    miec wrote: »
    I think a person who loves writing and is serious about it can use a variety of mediums to have their work published and I deem myself a very serious writer, if I was concerned about someone using my work for other purposes I would only send it to a magazine, anything I put up on a blog is at risk of being copied (I flatter myself, I doubt anyone would, but they are welcome to it). However, what I have written up there I take seriously in the same way that any posts or threads I start here are taken seriously but I have different expectations.

    Would I post my novel that I have just completed onto a blog, well the answer is no I wouldn't because I want it to be published in hard copy.

    The idea of someone stealing your work from your blog is pretty far out.
    But otherwise I dont see you disagreeing with me, in that you do thing with different expectations, though I cant imagine expectations of blogging being very high.
    I differ because the blog is a new medium in the same way the pamphlet was a new medium when the printing press was mainstream.

    It really isnt so new anymore, and pamphlets did and still do give lots of people voices; blogging furthers this but thats of little consequence to the writing industry.


  • #33
    SirJolt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭SirJolt


    It's strange to see the different attitudes that people have to writing here. I write for a living, it's my full time occupation. My work dictates what I do and don't write about, it's all very specific.

    Still, I enjoy creative writing, so that's what I do with my free time. I am paid to write the content that other people want me to write, and I'm cool with that. In my free time, I write what I'd like to write, on topics I feel I'd like to write about and in a style I couldn't use at work.

    I don't take issue with giving my work away for free. Do is take time and effort to produce? Undoubtedly. Does it give me anything at all for people to read it? Certainly not. Do I enjoy the idea that someone might stumble across something I've written and have it brighten their day in some small way? Yes.

    For me there's no question. I write for my own enjoyment, having it on a blog simply means that that content is available so that people can read it for their enjoyment. It's a net gain.


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