Apparently I ramble
Klaus JonesAugust 16th, 2009 at 7:01 am
I’ve been told my posts are becoming more essays than blog posts, so I’ll cut em down a bit – made easier by the cruise, as so much of it, while awesome, is difficult to convey in words. Nevertheless, for the best bits I’ll try.
So, the next couple of posts will be shorter posts for each day of the cruise, as each day we visited a different island/town along the Dalmatian Coast, each with its own unique attractions. Here goes!
Oh, and because the photos from the cruise are numerous and unorganised, here are the albums currently up – will update if I add any more
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:02 am
The people who say you ramble – fuck ‘em.
Arguments:
a) For whom are you writing? This is your blog, where you express yourself. Yourself, in your own style. Perhaps your personal writing style is a little differently to how you speak, but probably not very much. So if people – your friends – cope with the way you speak, they should be able to cope with the way you write.
b) Can you really portray your experiences in 500 words or less? I doubt it. If I wanted to read “$CITY_A is nice, weather is awesome, drinking heaps with friendly strangers, shame I have to leave so soon, next stop is $CITY_B”, I’d ask you to send me a postcard. Don’t make yourself boring just because people have short attention spans.
c) At the time you are writing these posts you remember more about these places and events than you ever will again. The more you write down now – the little things, the ones that sound like rambling but really just capture what exactly made the trip personal and not a sequence of images from a travel catalogue – the more value you will have from these posts in the future. I hardly blogged my World Cup games at all, and I really, really regret it. There’s a few cool bits and pieces I remember, but so much is gone. OTOH, reading accounts I /did/ post, I am reminded of the quirks that made the trip uniquely mine.
/Martin
P.S. Yes, I did the 10 push-ups.