X and a Half Things I Hate About Blogging...

byTigerLeo

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10 years ago

...Or Thursday Morning Rambling Thoughts About Learning To Write Differently From How I Was Taught At School...

1. The Word "BLOG" Too much like Blurb and Blah blah blah.

Since the advent of the wonderful web, so many new words have entered the global lexicon. Each time a new one comes along, I internally wince. "Google" has become a verb, as in "I'll just Google it".
"This site uses cookies" has me envisaging someone shooting up a packet of HobNobs.
And the worst - "Dongle" "Has anyone seen my dongle?" I won't repeat what my mother said to me when I asked this...

2. LISTS.

Everything is boiled down to a simple sound bite for quick and easy digestion. Yes, I understand the psychology behind it, but really, my day is already full of 'lists'. To-do lists, shopping lists, bucket lists... Is our attention span really that short? Do I really need to read a list on 10 Things To Know If Your Boyfriend Is Sleeping With Your Ex?

3. Coming Up With Natty Titles So Someone Will Read It.

Just Add A Capital Letter To The Beginning Of Whatever Random Thought Pops Into Your Head. (See Above).

4. Difficult one this. Writing As If You Are Speaking.

... um.. this one goes against the grain a tad cos... um well my job is ...er.. to er to teach English to ..er to um well people who don't speak English and ..er well at school we was...er I was..er well Mrs Harper, she was my favourite teacher and she said.. er she said to write down your thoughts on paper first and then read it again cos there might be some bits that are err that don't make sense or uh .. might be a bit offensive and could be said more politely. She also told us about this bloke who ...er.. now who was it? ...er well he was a riter and he said, like why use ten words when you cna just use one. Well...I think he was probably right cos some peeps just get a bee in their bonnet and then errr ... well like they just go on and on and on and then sometimes inthecomments boxes at the bottom, ..you know... people just get mad n start swearing an stuff an ...er...then it's like well... like you got this whole fight goinonanon in your livingroom and thenin your head an then you spentthewhold day fighting an nobody's even there...anerrr...well you end up knackered for nothing...!

5.Last but definitely not least. MOMMY BLOGS....

Another list.

1. The word (to me) is MUM. And its a status, NOT a qualification.You are not automatically an expert. Mine survived, even without the invention of the internet, and they are all safe to be trapped in a lift with. One even has the ability to fix said broken lift.

2. Why aren't there so many women blogging about their change of life? Pregnancy and Motherhood, lovely - share away... but the Big M word?? It's still a massively life-changing event in a woman's life, psychologically and physically, but still too much "eeeewwww" factor I guess...

3. In my experience, whenever I sat down to grab some 'Me-Time' away from my four boys, invariably there was some horrendous mess to clear up afterwards as a penance.

SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING READING THIS????

The half? God Blogs. Nothing to say. It's personal. See no.4...

AUTHORS NOTE;

These comments are tongue in cheek and not intended to be taken seriously. Please do not get offended, I am just practising this new craft of blogging and it is a bit of an experiment.

My 'friend' Stephanie, a blogger I follow, says if you feel or anger at something then you've still got some learning to do.

So publish, and be damned,... I probably will be...

Carry on bloggin and have a great day :-)

Love n light - Mel x