I want to clear up a common misconception. Blogging isn’t writing.
To simplify blogging as a composition exercise ignores the majority of the work. It’s a bit like saying a road trip is 100% destination and 0% journey.
Hardly.
Most of the memories on road trips start and end well before and long after the waypoint.
Similarly, while it may seem obvious that blogging is writing — just like driving seems like the obvious time-consuming nuisance between a road trip’s start and destination — it is convenient to overlook the long path of authoring a blog post.
So if blogging isn’t writing, what is it?
Blogging is reading, thinking, discussing, then writing.
This is why it’s frustrating to hear the normal reason people don’t blog.
Why would I blog? I have nothing to write about.
Well, do you read? Do you think? Do you talk? Then why don’t you focus those activities and summarize them on a blog?
