Writing

For many years the only way people could hear about what was happening across the world was to read the newspaper. But sometimes the newspapers can become held up and you won’t no what is happening until it has past. But now anyone can blog about anything anytime. For example, at this years Grammy’s Lady GaGa arrived in an egg, my writing teacher wasn’t watching the Grammy’s this year but she found out about this only two minutes after Lady GaGa arrived! Another example is what happened in Egypt, when the riots started people who weren’t out protesting blogged about what was happening there. What happened in Egypt is true (the same goes without saying for Lady GaGa) but not everything that you can read on the internet is true, I recently googled ‘how long ago did people start writing’ and on Answers.com the only answer that someone had posted was that people only started writing one year ago! I’m not sure what the exact time is (I never did find out) but I know for sure it’s not that. Blogging has changed the way the world get’s information and how soon people can find that information. I used to think that that is a good thing but when I think of all the false information that can and is put out in blogs I’m no longer so sure.

Blogging is also a great way for people to express and/or discus their opinions with other people, that is I believe, the purpose of blogging in the first place. People, who never would have known each other can talk, well write, about what they are passionate about. For example, my friend (wintrborn21 at Partial to Pink ) blogs about anything beauty, she is completely obsessed. By blogging about what she loves she can do what she loves and meet other bloggers that are just as passionate about beauty as she is. But you already knew that didn’t you? Of course you did……..so why did I bother telling you? I have no clue but don’t judge me!! What I’m trying to say is blogging is like a writer’s version of FaceBook. Instead of playing Farmville you blog about what you think about the game! Make sense? I hope so because that’s the best way I can explain it.

      
When I first started writing I EXTREMELY didn’t like everything about it, I didn’t like how I couldn’t type fast or how long it took for me to write things longhand (so of course I took it out on the subject instead of myself) but when I started taking a writing class by Mrs. Holly Van Houten at my mom’s learning center (she gets really annoyed when I call it a school), Huckleberry Center for Creative Learning, I grew to love writing. We wrote some essays but we also got to blog about anything we wanted to on Ning.com. It was so much fun! I could blog about whatever I wanted to, like how Jane Austen is a much better writer then James Patterson and how people should keep an open mind to all kinds of music, and my friend Charlotte could blog about how her parents should allow her to get this new BB gun. My class mates could comment on my blogs and leave suggestions on how I could make my blogs better. Soon I could type fast, instead of just pretending to and pressing random keys and writing slowly came easier to me. Blogging is a great way to learn how to have fun writing for those who have a harder time then others writing. I hope you are inspired to blog by this post!