2002 Story Set
| September 1, 2002 No, I am not! It happens that whenever the public catches up with technology, they have to name things. And this name is horrid! They made it up because a lot of people (in the millions now) have discovered that they can record stuff and post it to the web. A vast sea of personal pages has descended onto the Internet. Why not leave it as personal pages? It's what they are. I am a writer. I write a journal on-line. I am practicing writing by doing this. If I cannot get time to write my novels, then I will write something besides User Manuals. I do quick-writes. Spin them out and launch them. Do not over-edit. I did try keeping an active diary for 30 days when I was first laid off in March. For the heck of it. It was time consuming and a royal pain. However, it did snapshot my life. Which might be interesting 20 years from now. The rest of the time I write as I see fit. Stories pop into my head. Diatribes about something I read (like women of a certain age should not were hoop earrings - and we all went right out and bought some!) Diet stories. Childcare stories. Leukemia battles. Sexual discrimination in the high tech industry. Stalking Fabio. Whatever moves me or pisses me off or cracks me up at the moment, I write. I even have had short stories pop into my head. The Green Disk. Passage. And Jack's Are Wild! They popped into my head too. Fully written. Three different voices no less. When this happens in the car, I race to get to a computer. I am a writer. And now they want to name what I do. They call on-line journals - "BLOGS". It even sounds horrid. Sort of a "bog" and a "log" and that is not what I do. Bog is another term for "swamp". How flattering. And a computer log dump is a sight to behold. Although a full core dump is worse. Both are responsible for my speed-reading. I scan really fast. I refuse to consider myself in that group that considers itself bloggers. I am not making a swamp of life logs. I keep a journal. It just happens to be on-line. I am a writer. Say that three times, I did. |
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