I used to internally criticize my colleagues for writing blogs. I often wondered what was worse, that they had a blog, or that they wrote in their blog religiously everyday. Writing in a journal is one thing, but publishing on the internet, expecting people to read, analyze, and comment on your thought train seems a bit presumptuous. This I rant about from nothing other than a blog.
Reading and writing go hand in hand. A lack of skill in one field will hinder the other. So it is important that you participate in both. Journals are great for writing in for inherent reasons. But most pocket sized diary's do not offer a port to plug in a keyboard and I can type much faster than I can scribble with a pen. Upon further contemplation I comprehend the merits of a blog and succumb to its warm fuzzy feelings.
I remind you that I have mostly selfish intentions. I would enjoy giving you insight, ideas, or interest to a topic or argument that you were previously less educated but must remain steadfast in my assertion that my foremost purpose for this stream is to fulfill one of two components necessary to nurture my mind. You may argue, and I would agree, that by reading my words you are exercising the other part of the dual component formula but I would caution you that I am a young writer. I encourage you to not waste your time here, but instead spend your time reading the great authors of our past and present and writing your own words.
