Sorry
March 7, 2008
Sorry about the first post, I’m going to delete it. I don’t know who I’m saying sorry to seeing as a I doubt anyone actually read it, but it was too contrived and that’s not what I want my blog to be like. I want it to be a stream-of-consciousness thing, writing as I think of things. It’s quite hard as my hands can’t really keep up with my brain. Even when I was thinking about this post earlier I was trying not to because I could see it coming out perfectly but I knew that when I came to write it down it would seem contrived. So I wrote this instead. Contrived writing is obviously good in its place, that goes without saying, but it’s not real. If you try to premeditate what you are going to write for comic or dramatic effect, or whatever, it’s like a posed photograph. It may serve the purpose and look good, but it’s not real. Raw writing, like unposed photos, is alive and more real than the best thought-out imitation.
Even the title of this blog is too contrived for my liking. Whenever I type it or read it my stomach squirms with embarrassment that I could write something so angled and adjusted to meet criteria. Although, I guess the title does have to be contrived because I’d regret it later if it wasn’t. I think that if I want to make a particular point with a post or address a certain issue then it will be premeditated and the better for it, but most of the time I’d prefer to refrain from doing that to keep the writing clean and real.
There was somethings else I wanted to say but I can’t remember what it was not because I went to get some breakfast. I could talk about something else but maybe I won’t. Yeah this post is quite long already.
That is all.
