The blogosphere is charged with high-wattage ranting and raving and it worries me that so many talented writers are just yammering away day in and day out and blathering about everything as if anyone cares to hear them. It’s like a person who talks too much. A person really has to care about another person to stand and listen to them and the same thing goes with writing.
I’m trying to teach my kids how to write, but in so doing, I’m encouraging them to figure out what they really want to SAY. Something fresh, something original, something that’s not cliché and fraught with the same old ideas that everyone else has.
The dangers in over-writing is that you play yourself out, get repetitious, self-important, BORING.
If I can teach my kids to listen to what they think and then to think before they write I’ll have accomplished something. This emote and send stuff is really sad to see all over the Internet for the most part because there’s a real break-down in good, decent communication with all of the barbs thrown around in blogs.
