The art of blogging

A colleague of mine is trying to keep a blog/journal or some such and is finding it hard to keep up. He can't think of anything to write and has fallen back on an idea he had a while ago based upon The Chap magazine. In and of itself it's not a bad idea; he certainly has the wit and sense of humour to pull the style off, and I expect that it will be quite funny.

If ever he writes anything.

His problem of course is that in picking a style he has automatically excluded anything and everything else. Everything has to be themed, everything has to be of a style, and that means that nothing gets written.

Allow me, gentle reader, to share with you caddyman's secret to the art of keeping a journal.

The writer should be a keen observer of human behaviour, able to watch, remember, record and chronicle the minutiae of everyday life. It helps to keep abreast of current events. This enables one to place thoughts and feelings in an immediate cultural and historic perspective. If well written, such a journal can invite controversy and debate, leading to further input from friends and readers, which again feeds into the socio-political zeitgeist enriching the writer and the reader.

That is one approach, and a very rewarding and fulfilling one, too.

Or you can do what I do. Exaggerate wildly, or just plain make it up.

The art of blogging

A colleague of mine is trying to keep a blog/journal or some such and is finding it hard to keep up. He can't think of anything to write and has fallen back on an idea he had a while ago based upon The Chap magazine. In and of itself it's not a bad idea; he certainly has the wit and sense of humour to pull the style off, and I expect that it will be quite funny.

If ever he writes anything.

His problem of course is that in picking a style he has automatically excluded anything and everything else. Everything has to be themed, everything has to be of a style, and that means that nothing gets written.

Allow me, gentle reader, to share with you caddyman's secret to the art of keeping a journal.

The writer should be a keen observer of human behaviour, able to watch, remember, record and chronicle the minutiae of everyday life. It helps to keep abreast of current events. This enables one to place thoughts and feelings in an immediate cultural and historic perspective. If well written, such a journal can invite controversy and debate, leading to further input from friends and readers, which again feeds into the socio-political zeitgeist enriching the writer and the reader.

That is one approach, and a very rewarding and fulfilling one, too.

Or you can do what I do. Exaggerate wildly, or just plain make it up.