If you've been following my posts, you surely know what my blogging style is like. I try not to make my blogs seem like boring essays that are all "oh so" perfect in grammar. I've been writing formal essays for years and I have to admit, it has gotten me far in life, but sometimes I need a break from all that perfect spelling and grammar stuff. Sometimes I just want to write, to vent-all in the moment. I don't want to spend days and weeks on end editing and finally putting something out weeks later. This is why I blog. My blog is a derivative on how I write my "diary entries". Seriously, who spend days carefully editing their diary entries-it's usually an immediate expressive kind of writing, right? But when I "work", my writing mode usually goes back to being formal. I think all writers need that, a break from always writing "by the books". But come on, we're on a blog right now. The internet and blogging has its own set of codes and languages. Its language is more flexible for us to use. We can use slang, abbreviation, emoticons to dashes whenever we want in a sentence. But if you're publishing in a newsletter, newspaper, or a magazine that publishes a hard copy, then that's when the conventional rules of grammar apply. But with my blog, I can rant, rave and write in whatever style I want! I'm not worried about the red marker here!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
"Confessions of a Blogger"
If you've been following my posts, you surely know what my blogging style is like. I try not to make my blogs seem like boring essays that are all "oh so" perfect in grammar. I've been writing formal essays for years and I have to admit, it has gotten me far in life, but sometimes I need a break from all that perfect spelling and grammar stuff. Sometimes I just want to write, to vent-all in the moment. I don't want to spend days and weeks on end editing and finally putting something out weeks later. This is why I blog. My blog is a derivative on how I write my "diary entries". Seriously, who spend days carefully editing their diary entries-it's usually an immediate expressive kind of writing, right? But when I "work", my writing mode usually goes back to being formal. I think all writers need that, a break from always writing "by the books". But come on, we're on a blog right now. The internet and blogging has its own set of codes and languages. Its language is more flexible for us to use. We can use slang, abbreviation, emoticons to dashes whenever we want in a sentence. But if you're publishing in a newsletter, newspaper, or a magazine that publishes a hard copy, then that's when the conventional rules of grammar apply. But with my blog, I can rant, rave and write in whatever style I want! I'm not worried about the red marker here!
